Strategic Public Personnel Administration - 9780275965365

This two-volume collection, assembled by Farazmand (public administration, Florida Atlantic U.), is intended as intended to serve as a core textbook for graduate and undergraduate public personnel administration and human resource management courses. As such, it is less a "how to" introduction than a wide-ranging examination of the history, organization, management, politics, and institutional settings of public personnel management. The history and development of the field are addressed in the first eight papers, which specifically look at US public personnel administration history, the beginnings of strategic human resource management, and recent innovations. Four more papers discussing the politics of the bureaucracy and the civil service round out volume one. Attention then shifts to organizational behavior and its relationship to strategic public personnel management in five contributions that discuss such topics as burnout, job mobility assignments, high performance work teams, performance appraisal and organizational strategic planning, and off-campus consulting by public administration and affairs academics. Finally, six papers explore contemporary issues and trends, including affirmative action, workplace violence, gender disparities, technological change, labor relations, and Total Quality Management and globalization. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)