Public Personnel Administration: Problems and Prospects Book

	Preface
Sect. 1	The Setting	1
1	The Political Context of Public Personnel Administration	3
2	Competing Perspectives on Public Personnel Administration: Patronage, Civil Service, and Privatization	16
3	What Every Public Personnel Manager Should Know About the Constitution	29
4	Personnel Management in the Local Government Setting	46
5	The American Federal Bureaucracy: A Retrospective Look at Reinvention and Reform	62
6	Deregulating the Public Personnel Function	75
Sect. 2	The Techniques	91
7	Strategic Human Resource Management	93
8	Issues, Challenges, and Changes in Recruitment and Selection	106
9	Why Public Managers Hate Position Classification	126
10	Compensation, Merit Pay, and Motivation	143
11	The Trials and Tribulations of Performance Appraisal: Problems and Prospects on Entering the Twenty-First Century	154
12	Public Employee Benefits and the Changing Nature of the Workforce	167
Sect. 3	The Issues	181
13	Productivity and Privatization: The Human Resource Management Connection	183
14	Privatizing Personnel: Outsourcing Public Sector Functions	196
15	Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action in the Public Sector	209
16	Sexual Harassment in the Workplace	225
17	Working Together: Meeting the Challenge of Workplace Diversity	238
18	The Difference That Gender Makes	256
19	Disabled or Not Disabled: How Does the Americans With Disabilities Act Affect Employment Policies?	271
20	Supplementing Common Myths With Uncommon Management: The Effective Involvement of Volunteers in Delivering Public Services	287
21	Ethics and Human Resource Management	301
Sect. 4	Reform and the Future	317
22	Problems and Prospects for Public Employee Unions and Public Managers	319
23	Facing Fundamental Challenges in Reforming Public Personnel Administration	334
24	Reforming Public Sector Human Resource Management: Best Practices From the Practitioner's View	352
25	The Reform Agenda: Where Do We Go From Here?	367
	Index	379