Public Personnel Administration: Problems and Prospects

This collection of original manuscripts - representing a cross-section of current scholarship in public personnel administration - explores the theme of problems and prospects in public personnel administration. All chapters have been either extensively revised or are new, to include topics such as voluntary organizations, Total Quality Management, The Americans with Disabilities Act, human resource planning, reinventing government, and pension systems. This work is intended for use on undergraduate/graduate courses in public personnel administration in departments of political science or public administration.