Living where you lead : the impact of residency and residency requirements on the recruitment and retention of the city manager / Mitchell Berg, Heidi Voorhees, and Ian James.

Abstract: In this first part of a two-part article on how residency requirements affect the recruitment and retention of city managers and administrators, the authors analyze the advantages and disadvantages of cities imposing residency requirements, a brief history of how residency requirements became part of the HR fabric, the number of states that mandate or allow such requirements, and the influence that these requirements have on attracting and keeping city managers and administrators.