Public Human Resource Management 6/e

Richard C. Kearney is professor and director of the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. He was previously on the faculty of the University of Connecticut, Storrs, East Carolina University, and the University of South Carolina. His research on human relations management, public administration, and state and local politics and administration has been published in Public Administration Review, Public Personnel Management, Administration and Society, Publius, Urban Affairs Review, Policy Studies Journal, and many other journals. The 9th edition of his book (with Ann O'M Bowman) State and Local Government will be published in 2012. He received his Ph. D in political science from the University of Oklahoma in 1977.

Part 1: The Setting 1. Competing Perspectives on Public Personnel Administration: Civil Service, Nonstandard Work Arrangements, Privatization, And Partnerships - Donald E. Klingner 2. What Every Human Resource Manager Should Know about the Constitution - David H. Rosenbloom, Joshua Chanin 3. The Death and Life of Productivity Management in Government - Albert Hyde, Frederik Uys 4. Human Resource Management in the Federal Government During a Time of Instability - James R. Thompson, Robert Seidner 5. After the Recession: State Human Resource Management - Sally Coleman Selden 6. Strategic Human Resource Management at the Local Level: Balancing Enduring Commitments and Emerging Needs - Heather Getha-Taylor 7. The Nonprofit Sector Labor Force - Beth Gazley Part 2: Techniques 8. Strategic Human Capital - Joan E. Pynes 9. Supplanting Common Myths With Uncommon Management: The Effective Involvement of Volunteers In Delivering Public Services - Jeffrey L. Brudney 10. Personnel Appraisal No Matter What: Dysfunctional, Detrimental, Dangerous, Self-Defeating - James S. Bowman 11. Trends in Public Sector Compensation-Pay Administration - Jared J. Llorens 12. Employee Benefits: Patterns and Challenges for Public Organizations - Rex L. Facer II, Lori L. Wadsworth 13. Postemployment Benefits: Pensions and Retiree Health Care - Thad Calabrese, Justin Marlowe 14. Motivating Public Service Employees in the Era of the "New Normal" - Gerald T. Gabris, Trenton J. Davis 15. Emotional Labor: The Relational Side of Public Service - Mary Ellen Guy, Meredith A. Newman 16. Measuring and Benchmarking Human Resource Management - David N. Ammons 17. Managing Employee Problems: State Government Grievance and Complaint Resolution Systems and Practices - Jessica E. Sowa Part 3: The Issues 18. Combating Discrimination and Its Legacy: Affirmative Action and Diversity in the Public Sector - Edward J. Kellough 19. Gendered Organizations and Human Resource Management Practices that Foster and Sustain Gendered Norms - Sharon Mastracci, Lauren Bowman 20. Veterans' Preference and the Federal Service - Gregory B. Lewis 21. The Americans with Disabilities Act: Contradictions in Public Policy - Bonnie G. Mani 22. Ethics and Human Resource Management - Jonathan P. West 23. Public Sector Labor Issues: Rights, Retrenchment, and Democracy - Patrice Mareschal, Patricia Ciorici 24. Human Resources Management and Government Contracting - Sergio Fernandez, Deanna Malatesta, Craig Smith 25. Human Resource Management Issues with Social Media - Shannon H. Tufts, Willow S. Jacobson Part 4: Prospects 26. Public Sector Workplace Design: New Challenges and Future Dynamics - Katherine C. Naff 27. The Civil Service Under Siege - Richard C. Kearney, Jerrell D. Coggburn

"Two leading scholars of public human resource management have assembled an impressive set of authors to address comprehensively the critical developments and issues in the field." -- Frank J. Thompson "Public Human Resource Management covers all the bases. Kearney and Coggburn bring together leading scholars writing, in clear and persuasive ways, on core themes and leading issues in public sector HRM. The leading compendium just got better! An excellent find." -- Evan Berman "Once again Kearney and Cogguburn have assembled a useful reader. The pieces are nicely balanced between providing up-to-date overviews of current debates and providing guidance to practitioners on policy options. Chapters on strategic management, performance, dispute resolution, and labor relations go beyond material in the leading public personnel textbooks." -- Dr. Ellen V. Rubin