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https://doi.org/10.3141/1729-02

http://scholar.google.com...ight&publication_year=2000

A survey of state transportation agencies in the United States was conducted to identify staffing plan practices and concerns. A staffing plan involves recruiting, training, and retaining employees with skills to do the work needed for the organization to attain its objectives efficiently. Staffing plan areas studied in the survey included general information about the state transportation agency, such as the strategic plan and staffing plans, recruitment, right-sized workforce (determining the right number of employees to perform a job), flexible workforce (the ability to change the work performed and the work location), retention (keeping valuable employees), and succession planning (ensuring a qualified pool of employees for key positions). All 50 states participated in the survey. Responses indicated that most state transportation agencies have at least one primary area in human resource management that they consider innovative and that there is a broad-based interest among the states to cooperate in exploring new and better methods. The highest staffing plan priorities among state transportation agencies are employee recruitment, performance measures, and employee retention. State staffing plan priorities, current innovation in these areas, and strong interest in cooperating with other states provide a basis for broad-based improvement in staffing plans among the states and across the nation.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1729, Transportation Management and Education.

English

p. 12-20

2000

Transportation Research Record

0309067332

References (7) ; Tables (8)

Employees; Human resources management; Innovation; Personnel management; Personnel retention; Recruiting; State departments of transportation; Strategic planning; Surveys; Training

Job skills; Worker flexibility

Administration and Management; Education and Training; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration

TRIS, TRB

Dec 7 2001 12:00AM

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• ASSET MANAGEMENT: WHAT IS THE FUSS?
• LINKING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
• MEASURING THE PERFORMANCE OF STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES: THREE PERSPECTIVES
• MULTIDISCIPLINARITY IN TRANSPORT RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
• NEW YORK STATE'S APPROACH TO ASSET MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY
• NORTH CAROLINA DOT'S SKILL-BASED PAY PROGRAM: A WORKING MODEL FOR TRAINING AND COMPENSATING HIGHWAY WORKERS
• THE OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE BUSINESS INFORMATION LINK: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
• TRANSPORTATION ASSET MANAGEMENT: THE VALUE OF ENTERPRISE-BASED FINANCIAL REPORTING