Public employees and their representatives shall recognize the prerogatives of public employers to operate and manage their affairs in such areas as, but not limited to:
(1) direct employees;
(2) hire, promote, transfer, assign, and retain employees;
(3) relieve employees from duties because of lack of work or funds or under conditions where continuation of such work be inefficient and nonproductive;
(4) maintain the efficiency of government operations;
(5) determine the methods, means, job classifications, and personnel by which government operations are to be conducted;
(6) take whatever actions may be necessary to carry out the missions of the agency in situations of emergency;
(7) establish the methods and processes by which work is performed.