ABSTRACT
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. The collection covers everything from the seminal concerns of civil service (e.g., keeping spoils out) to topics that early reformers would never have envisioned (e.g., affirmative action and drug testing). These works continue to inform the theory and practice of public personnel and labor relations. To facilitate an instructor's ability to assign readings that illuminate lectures and course material, a correlation matrix on the M.E. Sharpe website shows how this book can be used easily alongside eight leading textbooks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section I|254 pages
Public Personnel Administration
part 1|34 pages
History and Politics
part 2|73 pages
Institutions, Functions, and Process
chapter 8|16 pages
The Dangers of Participative Management
chapter 9|11 pages
The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Workplace
part 3|46 pages
Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action, and Representative Bureaucracy
chapter 16|14 pages
Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Backward
part 4|38 pages
Civil Service Reform
part 5|58 pages
Legal Developments
section II|190 pages
Public Sector Labor Relations
part 6|43 pages
History and Politics
chapter 28|14 pages
Collective Negotiations in the Public Service
part 7|55 pages
Collective Bargaining, Impasse Resolution, and Strikes
chapter 35|10 pages
Public Sector Collective Bargaining
part 8|37 pages
Employee Participation and Labor Management Cooperation
chapter 38|13 pages
Union-Management Partnership in the U.S. Department of Labor
chapter 39|15 pages
Labor-Management Relations and Participative Decision Making
part 9|50 pages
Critical Developments in Public Sector Labor Relations