ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the tension between the instrumental role of public human resource management in monitoring organizational compliance with a multitude of legal requirements, while also playing a constitutive leadership role in helping public organizations to creatively adjust to the drivers of change in the external environment. It provides an overview of the mission, values, core functions, and overarching responsibilities of today’s human resource management portfolio: managing justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI), talent acquisition, total compensation, performance management, training and development, labor relations, and human resource information systems (HRIS).
