01511pab a2200217 454500 180718b2014 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Fowles, Jacob et al Public employee quality in a geographic context: A study of rural teachers 2014 p.503-521. Sep Recruiting high quality employees is one of the key functions of public human resource managers and a critical component of effective public service delivery. This is particularly true in education but little is known about public sector or teacher hiring patterns in areas that are predominantly rural, poor, and isolated from other locales. This article begins to fill that gap. We find that rural educational agencies employ the new teachers of lowest observed aptitude, implying that organizational outcomes associated with these districts may differ in systematic ways that reinforce longstanding gaps in quality. As such, human resources strategies for increasing the attractiveness of geographically and culturally isolated regions for high quality public service are needed. These strategies are likely to require different policy prescriptions than those utilized to enhance the attractiveness to employees in urban areas. - Reproduced. Recruiting Employees Training Human resources development Teachers American Review of Public Administration N 105880 105875 105875 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 44, Issue no: 5 AR106340 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR