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Book SynopsisWilliam Bacchus warns that the American Foreign Service is in serious danger of being unable to meet changing responsibilities unless it reforms its present personnel system. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distingu
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*TABLES AND FIGURES, pg. xi*PREFACE, pg. xiii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xxi*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*ONE. Defining Personnel Needs: The Future Foreign Affairs Environment, pg. 11*TWO. The Need for Change: Failures of the Current System, pg. 36*THREE. Obstacles to Reform: Sources of Existing Weaknesses, pg. 69*FOUR. No Perfect Schemes: Dilemmas of Personnel System Design, pg. 108*FIVE. Support Systems: Data, Planning, Evaluation, Priorities, pg. 166*SIX. The Foreign Service Act of 1980: Moving from Diagnosis to Action, pg. 194*SEVEN. What Remains to be Done?, pg. 221*APPENDIX: Summary Analysis of H.R. 6790 - Foreign Service Act of 1980, pg. 237*INDEX, pg. 251
