Human Resource Management In Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1412904218 ISBN 13: 9781412904216

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns, 2005

Riassunto

The Second Edition of this award winning text introduces managers and aspiring managers to this personally relevant and professionally exciting field. In Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems, authors Evan M. Berman, James S. Bowman, Jonathan P. West, and Montgomery Van Wart take a critical approach to exploring core management functions by stalking, contesting, and seeking resolution of paradoxes in all stages of employment - from recruitment through termination.

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L'autore:

Evan M. Berman is Professor of Public Management and Director of Internationalization at Victoria University of Wellington, School of Government. Prior, he was the Huey McElveen Distinguished Professor at Louisiana State University. His areas of expertise are human resource management, public performance, local government, and public governance in Asia. He is past Chair of the American Society for Public Administration’s Section of Personnel and Labor Relations. He has over 125 publications and 12 books, including People Skills At Work (CRC Press, 2011), Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts, Third Edition (CQ Press, 2012), and a trilogy of books on Public Administration in Asia (2010, 2011, 2013, CRC Press). He has published in all major journals of the discipline, is Senior Editor of Public Performance & Management Review, a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar,  past University Chair Professor at National Chengchi University (Taipei, Taiwan), and a former policy analyst with the National Science Foundation.

Contenuti:

Introduction
Part I: Context and Challenges
Chapter 1 Public Service Heritage: Continuity and Change
Chapter 2 Legal Rights and Responsibilities: Doing the Right Thing Right
Part II: Processes and Skills: From Start to Finish
Chapter 3 Recruitment: From Passive Posting to Head Hunting
Chapter 4 Selection: From Civil Service Commissions to De-centralized Decision-making
Chapter 5 Position Management: Judicious Plan or Jigsaw Puzzle?
Chapter 6 Compensation: Vital, Visible, Vicious
Chapter 7 Employee-Friendly Policies: Fashionable, Flexible, and Fickle
Chapter 8 Training and Development: Creating learning Organizations
Chapter 9 Appraisal: A Process in Search of a Technique
Part III: Designing the Future
Chapter 10 Unions and the Government: Protectors, Partners, Punishers
Chapter 11 HRM and Productivity
Glossary

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Sage Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1412904218
• ISBN 13: 9781412904216
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 368
• Redattore: Berman Evan M., Bowman James S., West Jonathan P., Van Wart Montgomery