Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems - Hardcover

Berman, Evan M.; Bowman, James S.; West, Jonathan P.; Van Wart, Montgomery R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1412904218 ISBN 13: 9781412904216

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2005

Synopsis

The Second Edition of this award winning text introduces managers and aspiring managers to this personally relevant and professionally exciting field. In Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems, authors Evan M. Berman, James S. Bowman, Jonathan P. West, and Montgomery Van Wart take a critical approach to exploring core management functions by stalking, contesting, and seeking resolution of paradoxes in all stages of employment - from recruitment through termination.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Recipient of the 2001 AWARD for "Best Public Sector HR Book" by the Section of Personnel and Labor Relations (SPALR) of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA).

About the Author:

Evan M. Berman is Professor of Public Management and Director of Internationalization at Victoria University of Wellington, School of Government. Prior, he was the Huey McElveen Distinguished Professor at Louisiana State University. His areas of expertise are human resource management, public performance, local government, and public governance in Asia. He is past Chair of the American Society for Public Administration’s Section of Personnel and Labor Relations. He has over 125 publications and 12 books, including People Skills At Work (CRC Press, 2011), Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts, Third Edition (CQ Press, 2012), and a trilogy of books on Public Administration in Asia (2010, 2011, 2013, CRC Press). He has published in all major journals of the discipline, is Senior Editor of Public Performance & Management Review, a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar,  past University Chair Professor at National Chengchi University (Taipei, Taiwan), and a former policy analyst with the National Science Foundation.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1412904218
• ISBN 13: 9781412904216
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 392