Providing students with a non-technical, policy-oriented, and issue-oriented treatment of the field of public personnel administration, this fifth edition of this well-established text offers current information on public policies, law and court rulings, and other issues in the field,. In addition to providing a solid grounding in the history of the civil service in the United States, it also includes a statistical snapshot of the contemporary service on the local, state, and federal levels.
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About the Author:
A Georgia State faculty member since 1979, Lloyd Nigro is currently professor and chair of the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies at Georgia State University. He previously taught at Syracuse University and the University of Southern California and his primary areas of scholarly research and publication are public-sector human-resources management and policy, administrative ethics, and American political thought and administration. He has published numerous articles in these areas and is co-author of THE NEW PUBLIC PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION, a widely used textbook. Currently his research interests are focused on state and local government civil service reform in the United States. Nigro's research has been published in Public Administration Review, International Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Management History, Administration and Society, Public Productivity Management Review, Policy Studies Journal and Review of Public Personnel Administration.
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- PublisherWadsworth Publishing
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0875814298
- ISBN 13 9780875814292
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number5
- Number of pages416
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