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Public Personnel Administration : Problems and Prospects

ISBN: 9780130413789 | 013041378X
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2003

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SummaryTable of Contents
For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Public Personnel Administration, Human Resources Administration, and Labor-Management Relations in departments of Political Science or Public Administration. This collection of original manuscriptsrepresenting a cross-section of the timeliest scholarship in public personnel administrationexplores the theme of problems and prospects in public personnel administration.
This collection of original manuscriptsrepresenting a cross-section of the timeliest scholarship in public... MORE
Prefaceix
SECTION ONE: THE SETTING1(90)
The Political Context of Public Personnel Administration
3(13)
Lana Stein
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Competing Perspectives on Public Personnel Administration: Patronage, Civil Service, and Privatization
16(13)
Donald E. Klingner
What Every Public Personnel Manager Should Know About the Constitution
29(17)
David H. Rosenbloom
Margo Bailey
Personnel Management in the Local Government Setting
46(16)
Alan Saltzstein
The American Federal Bureaucracy: A Retrospective Look at Reinvention and Reform
62(13)
Patricia Wallace Ingraham
Deregulating the Public Personnel Function
75(16)
Jerrell D. Coggburn
SECTION TWO: THE TECHNIQUES91(90)
Strategic Human Resource Management
93(13)
Joan E. Pynes
Issues, Challenges, and Changes in Recruitment and Selection
106(20)
Gary E. Roberts
Why Public Managers Hate Position Classification
126(17)
Katherine C. Naff
Compensation, Merit Pay, and Motivation
143(11)
James L. Perry
The Trials and Tribulations of Performance Appraisal: Problems and Prospects on Entering the Twenty-First Century
154(13)
Dennis Daley
Public Employee Benefits and the Changing Nature of the Workforce
167(14)
N. Joseph Cayer
SECTION THREE: THE ISSUES181(136)
Productivity and Privatization: The Human Resource Management Connection
183(13)
Evan Berman
Privatizing Personnel: Outsourcing Public Sector Functions
196(13)
Wendell C. Lawther
Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action in the Public Sector
209(16)
J. Edward Kellough
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
225(13)
Sally Coleman Seldon
Working Together: Meeting the Challenge of Workplace Diversity
238(18)
Sonia Ospina
James F. O'Sullivan
The Difference That Gender Makes
256(15)
Mary E. Guy
Disabled or Not Disabled: How Does the Americans With Disabilities Act Affect Employment Policies?
271(16)
Bonnie G. Mani
Supplementing Common Myths With Uncommon Management: The Effective Involvement of Volunteers in Delivering Public Services
287(14)
Jeffrey L. Brudney
Ethics and Human Resource Management
301(16)
Jonathan P. West
SECTION FOUR: REFORM AND THE FUTURE317(62)
Problems and Prospects for Public Employee Unions and Public Managers
319(15)
Richard C. Kearney
Facing Fundamental Challenges in Reforming Public Personnel Administration
334(18)
Hal G. Rainey
Reforming Public Sector Human Resource Management: Best Practices From the Practitioner's View
352(15)
Robert Lavigna
The Reform Agenda: Where Do We Go From Here?
367(12)
Lloyd Nigro
Index379

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