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Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A vacancy has been posted for nine weeks. The first-choice candidate withdrew last Tuesday, havingaccepted an offer from an employer that made its decision in four days. Eleven blocks away, a charitableorganization can decide today - but cannot say whether the position will still exist when the grantends.Both managers will blame salary. Both explanations will be incomplete. The real trouble is that neitherhas a personnel system able to show what actually went wrong, and most of the guidance available tothem was written for employers who face neither constraint.Standard treatments of this subject teach the two sectors separately, or teach them together with thedifferences smoothed away. Taught separately, the reader never learns which features of a governmentpersonnel system follow from being governmental and which follow from being large. Taught as oneundifferentiated field, the reader acquires a vocabulary that fits neither employer precisely.This volume keeps the two side by side and marks the differences as it goes. It works through theemployment relationship in sequence - planning, job analysis, recruitment, selection, legal compliance, onboarding, development, appraisal, pay, benefits, representation, discipline, separation - and it statesplainly where the evidence is strong, where it is contested, and where a practice is recommended onreasoning rather than demonstration.What this book helps you do: Separate the constraints that genuinely cannot be moved from the ones that are merelycustomary and defended in the language of requirement. Recognize when a workforce question has become a legal question - the most valuable legalskill a non-lawyer can have. Build a defensible record before it is needed, rather than reconstructing one during an appeal. Understand why a hiring process takes as long as it does, and which parts of the delay are yoursto change. Read the evidence behind widely taught practices, including several the field states moreconfidently than the research supports. Apply every recommendation at reduced scale, in an organization of thirty rather than threethousand.Key topics: merit systems, at-will employment, and charitable status; workforce planning under annualappropriations and grant cycles; job analysis, classification, and essential functions; recruitment, examination, eligible lists, and structured selection; equal employment obligations, accommodation, and harassment liability; onboarding, probation, retention, and burnout in helping work; appraisal, feedback, and goal displacement; pay structures, compression, exempt status, and executive pay rules;health coverage, pensions, and leave administration; collective bargaining, grievances, and arbitration;just cause, due process, investigation, and reduction in force; volunteers, boards, contractors, andinterns; and screening technology, privacy, metrics, and audit.Who it is for: upper-level undergraduates and graduate students heading into public administration ornonprofit management, and the person already in post who was handed the personnel function alongwith everything else.Every chapter ends in the same place - what to do on Monday, at the scale you actually operate at, with the resources you actually have. Begin working through the systems you are already inside, andfind out which parts of them were never fixed at all. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A government always has less money than its purposes require. The arithmetic is the easy part. The hardquestion, and the one this handbook is built around, is how a government decides which purposes get funded, and why the answer so often turns out to have been settled before anyone voted.Two kinds of books exist on this subject, and neither is enough on its own. Technical treatments explainclassifications, forecasts, and appropriation mechanics as though budgeting were a procedure a skilled analystcould simply perform correctly. Political treatments explain that budgets are contests among interests, and leavethe machinery looking like decoration. Practitioners live in the space between: the budget officer who has toexplain why an appropriated program never happened, the analyst who notices that four consecutive balancedbudgets are a pattern, the council member who cannot find out what a new facility will cost to operate once itopens.This handbook takes budgeting seriously as both. Its organizing claim is that public budgeting is an allocationcontest between institutions, conducted under rules that determine who must persuade whom, and that therules themselves are frequently the decisive factor. Its recurring finding is that a great deal of public allocationhas migrated out of the process designed to allocate publicly into preferences in the revenue system, dedicatedfunds, off-budget entities, long-term commitments, and deferrals, each legitimate on its own while the aggregatebelongs to nobody.What this book helps you do: - Use the vocabulary of spending authority precisely, and label any fiscal figure by year, status, and universe.- Trace an appropriation through execution, where a second allocation quietly takes place.- Recognize the devices that move allocation out of view, and read a proposal that uses one.- Read a government's debt position, capital commitments, and rigidity for what they oblige future budgets to do.- Identify fiscal stress early, while options remain open, rather than at the stage where they have closed.- Weigh claims about limits, transparency, and development incentives against what the research actuallysupports. Inside: legal authority over public money; the cycle and its actors; the theories that explain why budgets comeout as they do; reform waves and what survived them; execution, control, and the contest over appropriatedmoney; capital decisions and long-term commitment; revenue politics, salience, and limitation; spendingconducted through the revenue system; deficits, debt, and credit; relations among levels of government; stressand retrenchment; transparency and participation; and what a practitioner can do from inside. Who it is for: graduate students in public administration and public policy, legislative and executive budgetanalysts, finance directors, agency managers, elected officials, and instructors who need a text that treatsmechanism and politics as one subject.Begin where the decisions are actually made, and build the working knowledge to read a budget, follow themoney after enactment, and recognize the rules that will settle an argument before it starts. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…