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This concise and accessible reader contains original articles addressing the most current issues in public personnel management. Written expressly for the text by leading scholars, all of the articles are either new to this edition or substantially revised. Each article focuses on specificoften controversialissues, such as: the continuing debate over affirmative action and diversity; HR challenges in the Third Sector; and public personnel in emerging democracies.

Contributors

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Public Personnel Management: Where Has it Been, Where is it Going?

1

(7)

Carolyn Ban

Norma M. Riccucci

The Changing Role of the Personnel Office

8

(18)

Carolyn Ban

Technology and Human Resources

26

(13)

Myra Shiplett

Glenn Sutton

Administrative Reform and Public Personnel Management

39

(13)

B. Guy Peters

Exporting Administrative Excellence: Adapting Advanced Country Models to Developing Countries

52

(20)

Barbara Nunberg

The Immortality of Affirmative Action

72

(13)

Norma M. Riccucci

Managing Diversity in the Government Workplace

85

(10)

Norma M. Riccucci

Lesbians and Gay Men in the Public Sector Work Force

95

(18)

Charles W. Gossett

Revisiting the Reinvented Public Union

113

(21)

George T. Sulzner

Chronic Health Challenges and the Public Workplace

134

(15)

James D. Slack

Public Employees' Liability for ``Constitutional Torts''

149

(17)

David H. Rosenbloom

Margo Bailey

Hiring in the Federal Government: the Politics of Reform

166

(15)

Carolyn Ban

Employee Performance Appraisal and Pay for Performance in the Public Sector: A Critical Examination

181

(13)

J. Edward Kellough

Understanding Training in the Public Sector

194

(16)

Ronald R. Sims

Human Resources Management and Capacity in the States

210

(15)

Patricia Wallace Ingraham

Sally Coleman Selden

Privatization and Human Resources Management

225

(18)

Sergio Fernandez

Carol E. Lowman

Hal G. Rainey

Human Resource Management in Nonprofit Organizations

243

(13)

Joan E. Pynes

Index

256

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