Public Personnel Management: Current Concerns, Future Challenges » (4th Edition)

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 specific–often controversial–issues, such as: the continuing debate over affirmative action and diversity; global developments in HR; managing HR in the post-9/11 era; HR challenges in the Third Sector; and the treatment of gays and lesbians in public sector workforces.

Contributors.

Introduction.

1. Public Personnel Management and the Challenges of Democratic Governance.

Lloyd G. Nigro

2. Great Expectations But Hazards Ahead: Applying Lessons Learned from Past Demonstration Projects to Emergent Federal HRM Systems.

Patricia W. Ingraham and Heather Getha-Taylor.

3. Mexico’s Federal Professional Career Service: Linked Changes in Public Personnel Management and Political Culture.

Donald Klingner and David Arellano Gault.

4. Affirmative Action in the 21^st Century.

Norma M. Riccucci.

5. Managing Diversity: Redux.

Norma M. Riccucci.

6. Lesbians and Gay Men in the Public Sector Workforce.

Charles W. Gossett.

7. Chronic Health Challenges and the Public Workplace.

James D. Slack.

8. The Changing World of Labor Relations.

T. Zane Reeves.

9. Public Employees’ Liability for “Constitutional Torts.”

David H. Rosenbloom and Margo Bailey.

10. Hiring in the Federal Government.

Carolyn Ban.

11. Strategic Human Resources Management.

Dennis M. Daley.

12. Employee Performance Appraisal and Pay for Performance: A Critical Examination.

J. Edward Kellough.

13. Ethics Management and Training.

Evan M. Berman and Jonathan P. West.

14. Privatization and Its Implications for Human Resources Management.

Sergio Fernandez, Hal G. Rainey and Carol E. Lowman.

15. Human Resource Management Challenges for Nonprofit Organizations.

Joan E. Pynes.

Index.