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Public Personnel Administration

by: Cayer,N. Joseph

Public Personnel Administration

by: Cayer,N. Joseph

ISBN 13:
9780534618667
ISBN 10:
0534618669
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 07/28/2003
Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Summary

PUBLIC PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION provides a thorough overview of public personnel administration. Enjoyable and accessible, it is the ideal text to introduce students to the underlying organizational and management principles of public administration. The book covers all the major topics conceptually, without heavy treatment of details, keeping students excited and focused on the big picture.

Preface

The Environment of Public Personnel Administration

(16)

The Field of Public Personnel Administration

(2)

Public versus Private Sector Personnel Administration

(7)

Summary

(1)

Notes

(1)

Suggested Readings

(1)

Selected Web Sites

(1)

Exercises

(3)

Evolution of the Public Personnel System

(25)

The Early Roots

(2)

Jacksonian Democracy

(1)

Weakening of Spoils

(4)

Consolidation of Reform Efforts

(1)

Changing Concerns of the Merit System

(3)

Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 and Beyond

(3)

Legislative-Executive Conflicts

(1)

Professionals: Inheritors of the System

(2)

Spoils versus Merit

(2)

Summary

(1)

Notes

(1)

Suggested Readings

(1)

Selected Web Sites

(1)

Exercises

(3)

Personnel System Design

(15)

Personnel Office Roles

(1)

Types of Personnel Systems

(2)

Organizing Personnel Activities

(3)

Career Systems

(4)

Intergovernmental Personnel Issues

(1)

Summary

(1)

Notes

(1)

Suggested Readings

(1)

Selected Web Sites

(1)

Exercises

(3)

Techniques of Personnel Administration

(26)

Human Resources Planning

(2)

Position Classification

(7)

Compensation

(6)

Benefits

(4)

Strategies for Controlling Compensation Costs

(1)

Summary

(1)

Notes

(2)

Suggested Readings

(1)

Selected Web Sites

(1)

Exercises

(2)

Staffing and Maintaining the Workforce

(19)

Recruitment

(2)

Examinations

(2)

Selection

(3)

Promotion

(1)

Performance Evaluation

(3)

Discipline

(1)

Grievance and Appeals

(1)

Summary

(1)

Notes

(1)

Suggested Readings

(1)

Selected Web Sites

(1)

Exercises

100

(2)

Keeping Employees Motivated and Productive

102

(22)

The Supervisor

102

(2)

Approaches to Motivation

104

(3)

Motivation Techniques

107

(3)

Performance Management

110

(8)

Summary

118

(1)

Notes

118

(2)

Suggested Readings

120

(1)

Selected Web Sites

121

(1)

Exercises

122

(2)

Rights and Duties of Public Employees

124

(24)

Off-the-Job Conduct

124

(7)

On-the-Job Conduct and Rights

131

(10)

Summary

141

(1)

Notes

142

(2)

Suggested Readings

144

(1)

Selected Web Sites

144

(1)

Exercises

145

(3)

Labor-Management Relations

148

(26)

Government Resistance to Unions

149

(3)

Politics and Bargaining

152

(2)

Elements of a Labor Relations System

154

(6)

The Negotiating Process

160

(1)

Impasse Resolution Procedures

161

(3)

Strikes

164

(1)

Contract Administration

165

(1)

Unfair Labor Practices

166

(1)

Impact of Public Sector Bargaining

166

(2)

The Evolving Bargaining System

168

(1)

Summary

169

(1)

Notes

170

(1)

Suggested Readings

171

(1)

Selected Web Sites

171

(1)

Exercises

172

(2)

Social Equity and Diversity in the Workplace

174

(13)

Creation of a Diverse Workplace

174

(7)

Management of Diversity

181

(1)

Impacts of Diversity

182

(1)

Summary

183

(1)

Notes

183

(1)

Suggested Readings

184

(1)

Selected Web Sites

185

(1)

Exercises

185

(2)

Continuing Challenges for Public Personnel

187

(10)

Competitiveness

187

(1)

Resource Limitations

188

(1)

Technology

189

(1)

Privatization/Outsourcing

190

(1)

Litigation

191

(1)

Violence in the Workplace

191

(2)

Changing Demographics

193

(1)

Continuing Reform

193

(1)

Summary

194

(1)

Notes

194

(1)

Suggested Readings

195

(1)

Selected Web Sites

195

(2)

Appendix: Journals that Regularly Publish Articles on Public Personnel

197

(2)

Index

199

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