Human resource management in public service: paradoxes, processes, and problems

By:

Berman, Evan M

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Sage Publications, Inc. Thousand Oaks 2022Edition: 7thDescription: xix, 639 pISBN:

9781071848906

Subject(s):

Civil service -- Personnel management

DDC classification:

352.6 BER

Summary: Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems offers provocative and thorough coverage of the complex issues faced by employees and managers in the public sector, including managing under tight budgets with increasing costs, hiring freezes, contracting out, and the politicization of the civil service. Continuing the award-winning tradition of previous editions, authors Evan M. Berman, James S. Bowman, Jonathan P. West, and Montgomery R. Van Wart encourage active learning through various skill-building exercises and a mixture of individual, group, and in-class tasks. The Seventh Edition includes new examples on how COVID-19 has disrupted the workplace, equity and racial discord, organizational diversity, employee engagement and motivation, leadership development training, work-life balance, gender-based inequities, behavioral biases in appraisal, and unionization trends. (https://collegepublishing.sagepub.com/products/human-resource-management-in-public-service-7-268254)

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Table of content:
Introduction
PART I • CONTEXT AND CHALLENGES
CHAPTER 1 • The Public Service Heritage: People, Process, and Purpose
CHAPTER 2 • Legal Rights and Responsibilities: Laws Governing the Workplace
PART II • PROCESSES AND SKILLS: FROM START TO FINISH
CHAPTER 3 • Recruitment: From Passive Posting to Social Media Networking
CHAPTER 4 • Selection: From Civil Service Commissions to Decentralized Decision Making
CHAPTER 5 • Position Management: Judicious Plan or Jigsaw Puzzle?
CHAPTER 6 • Employee Motivation: Possible, Probable, or Impossible?
CHAPTER 7 • Compensation: Vital, Visible, and Vicious
CHAPTER 8 • Employee-Friendly Policies: Fashionable, Flexible, and Fickle
CHAPTER 9 • Training and Development: Exploring New Frontiers
CHAPTER 10 • Appraisal: A Process in Search of a Technique
CHAPTER 11 • Unions and the Government: Protectors, Partners, and Punishers
CHAPTER 12 • Collective Bargaining: Structures, Strategies, and Skills
CONCLUSION • The Future as Opportunity, Not Destiny
Glossary
Index
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Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems offers provocative and thorough coverage of the complex issues faced by employees and managers in the public sector, including managing under tight budgets with increasing costs, hiring freezes, contracting out, and the politicization of the civil service. Continuing the award-winning tradition of previous editions, authors Evan M. Berman, James S. Bowman, Jonathan P. West, and Montgomery R. Van Wart encourage active learning through various skill-building exercises and a mixture of individual, group, and in-class tasks.

The Seventh Edition includes new examples on how COVID-19 has disrupted the workplace, equity and racial discord, organizational diversity, employee engagement and motivation, leadership development training, work-life balance, gender-based inequities, behavioral biases in appraisal, and unionization trends.
(https://collegepublishing.sagepub.com/products/human-resource-management-in-public-service-7-268254)

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