New York State Service, Svazek 1,Svazek 31,Díl 1

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New York State Department of Civil Service., 1914
 

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Strana 30 - Reform and as the highest exponents of civic virtue, and which distrusted the average citizen and shuddered over the "coarseness" of the professional politicians, were, nevertheless, given to vices even more contemptible than, although not so gross as, those they denounced and derided. Their editors were refined men of cultivated tastes, whose pet temptations were backbiting, mean slander, and the snobbish worship of anything clothed in wealth and the outward appearances of conventional respectability....
Strana 29 - ... promotion examination did any good. The reason for a written competitive entrance examination is that it is impossible for the head of the office, or the candidate's prospective immediate superior, himself to know the average candidate or to test his ability. But when once in office the best way to test any man's ability is by long experience in seeing him actually at work. His promotion should depend upon the judgment formed of him by his superiors.
Strana 29 - The civil service reform movement was one from above downward, and the men who took the lead in it were not men who as a rule possessed a very profound sympathy with or understanding of the ways of thought and life of their average fellow citizen.
Strana 28 - ... but was the only system under which good results could be obtained. For instance, when I was police commissioner, we appointed some two thousand policemen at one time. It was utterly impossible for the commissioners each to examine personally the six or eight thousand applicants. Therefore, they had to be appointed either on the recommendation of outsiders or else by written competitive examination. The latter method — the one we adopted — was infinitely preferable. " We held a rigid physical...
Strana 29 - I absolutely split off from the bulk of my professional Civil Service Reform friends when they advocated written competitive examinations for promotion. In the Police Department I found these examinations a serious handicap in the way of getting the best men promoted, and never in any office did I find that the written competitive promotion examination did any good. The reason for a written competitive entrance examination is that it is impossible for the head of the office, or the candidate's prospective...
Strana 31 - POPULAR APPROVAL OF THE MERIT SYSTEM. The development and improvement of the practical methods of the merit system in recent years have been rapid not merely in the Federal service, but in the great municipalities of the country. Of the whole number of public employees in the United States — Federal, State, county, municipal, and village — not far from...
Strana 17 - May fifth a meeting was held in New York City for the purpose of granting a public hearing to all who wished to be heard either in favor of or in opposition to the...
Strana 11 - Commission (supra). However, an alternative writ was issued in this case, without notice, to which a demurrer was interposed upon the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The demurrer was sustained at Special Term and appeal taken to the Appellate Division of the Third Department.
Strana 29 - Messrs. Bonaparte and Rose, Foulke and Swift, added common sense, broad sympathy, and practical efficiency to their high-mindedness. But in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston there really was a certain mental and moral thinness among very many of the leaders in the Civil Service Reform movement. It was this quality which made them so profoundly antipathetic to vigorous and intensely human people of the stamp of my friend Joe Murray — who...
Strana 11 - ... mandamus to revoke the classification by the Civil Service Commission of the position of transfer tax examiner in the Comptroller's office, in the exempt class. This involves the same classification as the case of the People ex rel. W. Holden Weeks v.

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