Description
Product ID: | 9781071848906 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Human Resource Management in Public Service |
Subtitle: | Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems |
Authors: | Author: Evan M. Berman, Montgomery R. Van Wart, Jonathan P. West, James S. Bowman |
Page Count: | 664 |
Subjects: | Personnel and human resources management, Personnel & human resources management, Non-profitmaking organizations, Non-profitmaking organizations |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems offers provocative and thorough coverage of the complex issues of management in the public sector. This Seventh Edition encourages active learning for students through skill-building exercises, problem-solving tasks, and new sections on critical thinking. Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems offers provocative and thorough coverage of the complex issues faced by employees and managers in the public sector, including managing under tight budgets with increasing costs, hiring freezes, contracting out, and the politicization of the civil service. Continuing the award-winning tradition of previous editions, authors Evan M. Berman, James S. Bowman, Jonathan P. West, and Montgomery R. Van Wart encourage active learning through various skill-building exercises and a mixture of individual, group, and in-class tasks. The Seventh Edition includes new examples on how COVID-19 has disrupted the workplace, equity and racial discord, organizational diversity, employee engagement and motivation, leadership development training, work-life balance, gender-based inequities, behavioral biases in appraisal, and unionization trends. |
Imprint Name: | CQ Press |
Publisher Name: | SAGE Publications Inc |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-09-20 |