ABSTRACT

Good, comprehensive overviews of human resource management in the United States may be found in any one of a number of textbooks. See Dennis L. Dresang,

agement in Government: Politics and Process, 7th ed. (New York: CRC Press, 2013). A good collection of readings in the field may be found in Steven W. Hays, Richard C. Kearney, and Jerrell D. Coggburn, eds., Public Personnel Administration: Problems and Prospects, 5th ed. (New York: Routledge, 2008).