Personnel management in government : politics and process

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Personnel management in government : politics and process

Jay M. Shafritz ... [et al.]

(Public administration and public policy, 92)

M. Dekker, c2001

5th ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

A comprehensive guide, this book covers employee relations and the legacy of quality and reengineering, and discussions on the growth of public personnel management in state and local sectors. The authors discuss affirmative action and equal opportunity case law, work and family issues, the Volcker Commission findings, an analysis of federal pay reform and innovative classification and compensation systems currently implemented by federal agencies, a discussion of constitutional and legal issues facing public personnel administration in areas such as AIDS and drug testing, figures and tables on collective bargaining laws and trends, and more.

Table of Contents

  • The history and environment of public personnel management
  • the first century of civil service reform
  • civil service reform in the post-reform era
  • the legal framework of public personnel management
  • the processes of human resources management
  • humanresources planning
  • classification and compensation
  • recruitment and selection
  • performance appraisal
  • training and development
  • quality management and re-engineering
  • equal opportunity and diversity in government
  • equal employment opportunity andaffirmative action
  • managing diversity
  • unions and employee relations in government
  • labour-management relations
  • employee relations.

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