Local Government Management Fellowship work plan from the city of Fremont, California.

Guidelines for participating in executive recruitment—ethically.

A code of ethics guiding the conduct of public administrators in Denmark.

You can build upon these six action strategies and the examples that resonate most for your own community to develop lasting initiatives that are backed by solid data.

Seeking to become more inclusive, many jurisdictions are endeavoring to go “beyond compliance” and create programs that recruit, hire, and retain underrepresented populations.

Summary of survey results

Guidance from the ICMA Committee on Professional Conduct

What would motivate a seasoned military veteran or retiree to intern with and learn the ins and outs of a local government? For one thing, job availability. Over the next decade, nearly 40 million baby boomers (or more than a third of the roughly 127 million full-time workers in the United States), will retire, according to…