Strategic Public Personnel Administration [2 volumes]

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Strategic Public Personnel Administration [2 volumes] Building and Managing Human Capital for the 21st Century

Ali Farazmand

Book Code: C6536

ISBN: 0-275-96536-8

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96536-5

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524 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 12/30/2006

List Price: $225.00 (UK Sterling Price: £125.00)

Discount Price: $180.00 Praeger Perspectives. Use code 0821. Save 20%. Ends 10/31/2008.

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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This two-volume collection, assembled by Farazmand, 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.
—Reference & Research Book News May 2007

Description: The history of public personnel administration is as old as human civilization itself: Persia, China, Assyria, Egypt, and Rome all practiced strategic personnel management, some systematically and others unsystematically. But despite the longstanding practice of strategic public personnel administration, the systematic study of this field is a fairly new development in the modern world. Today, the need for strategic thinking in public personnel administration and human capital development is more urgent than ever before. Managing and coping with the challenges of transworld migrations of capital and labor, cyber-employment and virtual workplaces, and relentless global pressures for results-oriented performance all require the development of human capital as a key asset of modern governments and private organizations. Governments and public administration organizations must confront these challenges if they are to survive and thrive in the 21st century, and Strategic Public Personnel Administration provides a comprehensive analysis of the past development and current function of the field so as to give a clearly balanced picture of public personnel administration in both theory and practice. Today, strategic public personnel management is a central component of strategic governance and administration in public and nonprofit organizations. Strategic personnel administration aims to lead organizations along the right paths with the necessary people on hand to achieve strategic goals and objectives in modern governance and public administration. This two-volume set fills a major gap in the current literature, and it will serve as a key work that addresses the history, knowledge, policy, management, process, and culture of public personnel administration with a strategic perspective.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1
Preface
PART I. STRATEGIC PUBLIC PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION/HRM
:HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT, AND TRANSFORMATION
1. Strategic Public Personnel Administration: A Conceptual Framework for Building and Managing Human Capital in the 21st Century
2. U.S. Public Personnel Administration in Historical Perspective
3. Toward a New Perspective in Strategic Human Resource Management in the Public Sector
4. Accountability Challenges Facing Public Sector HRM in an Era of Downsizing, Devolution, Diffusion, and Empowerment
5. Making the Transition to Strategic Human Resource Management: Precursors, Strategies, and Techniques
6. Productive Human Resource Management in the 21st Century: Context and Strategies
7. Strategic Planning as Fakery: Government Does it While Pretending it Does Not
8. Innovations in Strategic Human Resource Management: Building Capacity in the Age of Globalization
PART II. BUREAUCRACY, CIVIL SERVICE, AND POLITICS
9. American Public Employment: Testing Models of Change
10. Politics and Strategic Public Personnel Management: The Least Bad System?
11. Ending Civil Service Paralysis: Emerging Practices and Trends in State Human Resources Management
12. A Modest Proposal Regarding Political Appointees
13. Civil service reform in the United States: a Strategic Analysis of the Past, Present, and Future
Volume 2
Preface
PART III. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND STRATEGIC PPM
14. Phase Model of Burnout as Leverage in Meeting Future Forces Challenging HRD
15. Job Mobility Assignments: Mechanisms for Human Resource Capacity Development
16. High Performance Work Teams
17. Linking Performance Appraisal to Organizational Strategic Planning: A Challenging Task in the New Century
18. Gown Goes to Town: On Campus Commitment and Off-Campus Consulting by Public Administration and Affairs Faculty
PART IV. ISSUES AND TRENDS IN PUBLIC PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION
19. Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action, and the Constitution: New Challenges Facing Public HRM
20. The Human Resources Perspective on Workplace Violence
21. Framing Gender, Framing Work: The Disparate Impact of Traditional Human Resource Management Practices
22. Strategic Human Resource Management: Applying Technology to Function
23. Strategic Public Sector Labor Relations and High Performing Workplaces: Confrontation or Cooperation?
24. Total Quality Management (TQM) and Globalization?: Changing Role of Government, Challenges and Opportunities
Index
About the Editor and Contributors

LC Card Number: 2006029132

LCC Class: JF1351

Dewey Class: 352


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