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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute an agreement with Management Partners, Inc. to provide a comprehensive and objective review of the City’s current recruitment, hiring, and retention approaches; and to develop an implementation plan with recommendations to enhance the hiring and retention of a well-qualified and diverse workforce, for a period of one year, in an amount not to exceed $152,484. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
As part of the Fiscal Year 2007 Adopted Budget, the City Manager called for an optimization study addressing the approaches the City utilizes in recruiting, hiring, and retaining a qualified, diverse City workforce. Long Beach, like other city governments nationally, is struggling to attract and retain high quality employees. This is the foundation upon which successful organizations are built. With the impending retirement of the baby-boomer generation, and the limited number of people entering the public sector labor market, the City is taking a proactive step to improve its organizational strength for the future.
By defining the operational environment today and best practice approaches, a recruitment, hiring, and retention optimization study conducted by an industry expert will provide an opportunity to increase the City's competitiveness as an employer of choice.
To have continuity of leadership and the depth of knowledge and experience essential to quality service delivery, requires an understanding of which policies, practices, structures and programs currently used in the City organization are useful to recruitment and retention, and which impair success. This includes establishing best practices that position the City to develop strength at all levels of the organization for success in the future.
A Request for Proposals for professional consulting services was advertised in January 2007, and nine firms submitted proposals in response to the RFP. One certified
Woman-Owned Business Enterprise, and no local or MBE fi...
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