Product Description: MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connection can visit www.MySearchLab...read more

Product Description: Human resources represents one of the largest shares of government budgets at every level. The management of people who carry out the government's work is therefore a critical issue to politicians and government managers and leaders, as well as citizens...read more

The Public Sector offers practical advice to British public sector managers on how to develop techniques to deal with the challenges they face, particularly in the areas of accountability, setting targets, risk management/encouraging innovation, managing people, decision making and working with politicians. Based on original interviews with politicians and senior public sector managers in the UK, it is full of anecdotes, actionable lessons and insights. Each chapter takes a specific aspect of management and starts by explaining why it is different in the public sector, then sets out ways for public sector managers to handle those differences and ends with an executive summary and a checklist to prompt managers to think about how they might change what they currently do.

Product Description: Government employees face enormous challenges today, including being stigmatized as underworked and overpaid. At the same time, they're being asked to solve some of our toughest problems including unemployment, security, poverty, and education...read more

Product Description: Federal agencies have been encouraged to expand their use of telework - it reduces overheads and improves productivity and the employees' ability to manage their work and life obligations. This book summarises the provisions of P...read more

Product Description: The increasingly senior federal workforce, and their anticipated retirement from federal service, continues to top the list of human capital concerns across government. This book explores network and information technology workforce considerations.

Product Description: Recent Developments in Whistleblower Claims provides an authoritative, insider's perspective on the state of whistleblower legislation today and the tactics for effective corporate responses. Featuring partners from some of the nation's leading law firms, these experts guide the reader through various types of whistleblower claims and present strategies for handling each...read more

Product Description: This book is a must-have for all Department of Defense employees faced with the challenge of writing their NSPS self-assessment. This book has simplified the complicated federal employment process into ten very easy-to-learn steps...read more

Product Description: Human resource management is experiencing profound change, new challenges, exciting accomplishments, and much uncertainity. The public service has moved away from the old days of "personnel management" concerned mostly with processing "personal action" paperwork, to a system where public employees are managed as human capital to get the work of the government done more effectively and efficiently...read more

Product Description: If you re responsible for succession planning and related practices at the government level, you know succession planning in government is different than in other sectors. And you may wonder how other governmental entities have met the succession planning challenge...read more

Product Description: Administrative Leadership in the Public Sector is an ideal resource for any Public Administration course involving leadership and public management. Each of the book’s nine main sections begins with introductory text by the volume’s editors, Monty Van Wart and Lisa Dicke, followed by relevant readings...read more

Product Description: Fourth Edition contains up-to-date material on affirmative action and equal opportunity case law…a new chapter on work and family issues…a new chapter on comparable worth…the latest details on the Volcker Commission findings…analysis of federal pay reform and innovative classification and compensation systems currently implemented by federal agencies…a timely discussion of constitutional and legal issues facing public personnel administration in areas such as AIDS and drug testing…new figures and tables on collective bargaining laws and trends, with state-by-state comparisons…and more...read more

Product Description: The readings in this volume will enlighten and enliven the contents of any standard public administration text covering human resource management. Selected mainly from the pages of Public Administration Review and Review of Public Personnel Administration, these classic articles trace the historical and evolutionary development of the fields of public personnel administration and labor relations from the point at which the first civil service law was passed - the Pendelton Act in 1883 - through the 21st century...read more