Creator: Personnel Board (RG 70).

Collection Summary: Materials generated or gathered by Mississippi State Personnel Board (MSPB) staff in the course of compiling information requested by the Joint Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review, Mississippi’s legislative oversight body, more commonly known as the “PEER Committee.” The series includes printed copies of MSPB staff emails, notes, correspondence, lists of state employee training classes taught by MSPB, financial data on training programs, a printed copy of Chapter 6 of PEER Report #518, and copies of older PEER reports used as research material. In 2008, as part of a large report on state government, the PEER Committee was gathering information about human resources management, specifically the training of state employees: what mechanisms were already in place, and what changes could be made for improvement. As the State Personnel Board was responsible for the oversight of 94% of state employees at that time and sponsored a number of state employee training classes and programs, it was naturally the agency the PEER Committee turned to for answers regarding its human resources management questions. The data provided by the MSPB was used in the writing of Chapter 6 (“Human Resources Management”) of PEER Report #518, Enterprise Mississippi: A Vision for State Government (December 2008).

Access Restrictions: None.

Date(s): 2000-2008.

Volume: 0.50 Cubic Feet 

Finding Aid Created By: Colby Cox in March 2025.

Related Materials: TBD.

Record Group History: The Mississippi State Personnel Board has its origins in the Joint Committee on Salaries and Expenses which was created in 1964 by Governor Paul B. Johnson, Jr. The Committee was created to create a plan for the establishment of a more uniform pay scale and advancement procedure for Mississippi’s state agencies. In 1970, The Mississippi Classification Commission was created to carry out the Committee on Salaries and Expenses’ recommendations. The Classification Commission was abolished and replaced with the State Personnel Board in February 1981. The newly created State Personnel Board was given the duty of creating a merit-based hiring and promotion system for state agencies and provide training and guidelines for state employees. The Board is also obliged to create incentives and opportunities to retain high-performance employees to enhance the overall personnel system of the state. 

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Research materials for Chap. 6, PEER Report #51829853