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Book SynopsisPublic Personnel Management has served as an essential, concise reader for public personnel and human resource management courses in the fields of public administration, political science, and public policy over the last 25 years. Since the first edition published in 1991, the book has offered professors and students alike an in-depth look at cutting-edge developments beyond standard textbook coverage, to provide a broad understanding of the key management and policy issues facing public and nonprofit HRM today. Original chapters are written expressly for the text by leading public administration scholars, each focusing on specific and often controversial concerns for public personnel management, such as pensions, gender and sexuality, healthcare, unions, and a multi-generational workforce.
Now in an extensively revised sixth edition, Public Personnel Management presents new, original chapters to examine developments of interest to researchers and pra
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Winner of the 2018 ASPA Section of Personnel and Labor Relations Best Book Award
"The text addresses all of the current and upcoming issues facing human resource management in the public sector. In short, the book does an outstanding job of including interesting, timely, and useful topics for the chapters." – Jeff Ashley, Eastern Illinois University, USA
Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Public Personnel Management: A Cornerstone of Effective Government [J. Edward Kellough] 2. Human Resources Practices and Research in Europe [Lotte Bøgh Andersen, Peter Leisink and Wouter Vandenabeele] 3. Generational Differences and the Public Sector Workforce [Madinah F. Hamidullah] 4. Affirmative Action and the Law [Norma M. Riccucci] 5. Diversity, Social Equity, and Representative Bureaucracy [Susan T. Gooden] 6. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Employees in the Public Sector Workforce [Charles W. Gossett] 7. Paying the Shadow Workforce: The Case of Health Care [Shugo Shinohara and Frank J. Thompson] 8. Unions in the Public Sector [Randall S. Davis] 9. Public Employees’ Liability for "Constitutional Torts" [David H. Rosenbloom] 10. Public Sector Pensions and Benefits: Reform Challenges in a New Environment [Albert C. Hyde and Christian Richards] 11. Public Service Reform and Motivation [R. Paul Battaglio, Jr.] 12. Workforce Planning in Turbulent Times [Heather Getha-Taylor] 13. The Senior Executive Service: Past, Present, and Future [Jessica Sowa] 14. The Role of Human Resource Management in Cybersecurity [Jared J. Llorens] 15. Telework in Government [Willow Jacobson] 16. Human Resources Management in Nonprofit Organizations [Joan E. Pynes]
