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.

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Cover
Half Title
Acknowledgements
Publisher Note
Title Page
Copyright Page
Brief Contents
Detailed Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One Context and Challenges
Chapter One The Public Service Heritage: People, Process, and Purpose
Chapter Two Legal Rights and Responsibilities: Laws Governing the Workplace Michael P. Spellman Shareholder, Sniffen & Spellman, P.A. Tallahassee, Florida
Part Two Processes and Skills: From Start to Finish
Chapter Three Recruitment: From Passive Posting to Social Media Networking
Chapter Four SELECTION: From Civil Service Commissions to Decentralized Decision Making
Chapter Five Position Management: Judicious Plan or Jigsaw Puzzle?
Chapter Six Employee Motivation: Possible, Probable, Or Impossible?
Chapter Seven Compensation: Vital, Visible, and Vicious
Chapter Eight Employee-Friendly Policies: Fashionable, Flexible, and Fickle
Chapter Nine Training and Development: Exploring New Frontiers
Chapter Ten Appraisal: A Process in Search of a Technique
Chapter Eleven Unions and the Government: Protectors, Partners, and Punishers
Chapter Twelve Collective Bargaining: Structures, Strategies, and Skills
Conclusion: The Future as Opportunity, Not Destiny
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