ABSTRACT
This volume includes perspectives on public service selected from six decades of major public administration journals. Recurring themes include: motivations to enter the public service, positive and negative images of public servants and of government, conflicts between loyalty to the organization and loyalty to the public, morale, burnout, and turnover. The volume also includes cross-national analyses of the public service in other systems, proposals for rethinking public service systems, and questions as to the future of the public service. It recaptures a long, continuing debate as to the health of the public service, and in so doing suggests agendas for university research and administrative action.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|79 pages
Role Models and Roles
part Two|42 pages
Are We Educating for Public Service?
part Three|57 pages
What Motivates People to Enter the Public Service?
part Four|94 pages
Are Public Servants Satisfied in Their Jobs?
chapter 15|12 pages
What Municipal Employees Want from Their Jobs Versus What They Are Getting
part Five|55 pages
Are Public Servants Staying or Fleeing?
chapter 21|11 pages
Are the Best and the Brightest Fleeing Public Sector Employment?
part Six|71 pages
What Do We Need to Know? To Do?