Human resource management in public service: paradoxes, processes, and problems
- 7th
- Thousand Oaks Sage Publications, Inc. 2022
- xix, 639 p.
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 [https://collegepublishing.sagepub.com/products/human-resource-management-in-public-service-7-268254]
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)