Volume 1 Preface PART I. STRATEGIC PUBLIC PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION/HRM :HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT, AND TRANSFORMATION 1. Strategic Public Personnel Administration: A Conceptual Framework for Building and Managing Human Capital in the 21st Century 2. U.S. Public Personnel Administration in Historical Perspective 3. Toward a New Perspective in Strategic Human Resource Management in the Public Sector 4. Accountability Challenges Facing Public Sector HRM in an Era of Downsizing, Devolution, Diffusion, and Empowerment 5.

Making the Transition to Strategic Human Resource Management: Precursors, Strategies, and Techniques 6. Productive Human Resource Management in the 21st Century: Context and Strategies 7. Strategic Planning as Fakery: Government Does it While Pretending it Does Not 8. Innovations in Strategic Human Resource Management: Building Capacity in the Age of Globalization PART II. BUREAUCRACY, CIVIL SERVICE, AND POLITICS 9. American Public Employment: Testing Models of Change 10. Politics and Strategic Public Personnel Management: The Least Bad System? 11. Ending Civil Service Paralysis: Emerging Practices and Trends in State Human Resources Management 12.

A Modest Proposal Regarding Political Appointees 13. Civil service reform in the United States: a Strategic Analysis of the Past, Present, and Future Volume 2 Preface PART III. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND STRATEGIC PPM 14. Phase Model of Burnout as Leverage in Meeting Future Forces Challenging HRD 15. Job Mobility Assignments: Mechanisms for Human Resource Capacity Development 16. High Performance Work Teams 17. Linking Performance Appraisal to Organizational Strategic Planning: A Challenging Task in the New Century 18. Gown Goes to Town: On Campus Commitment and Off-Campus Consulting by Public Administration and Affairs Faculty PART IV.

ISSUES AND TRENDS IN PUBLIC PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION 19. Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action, and the Constitution: New Challenges Facing Public HRM 20. The Human Resources Perspective on Workplace Violence 21. Framing Gender, Framing Work: The Disparate Impact of Traditional Human Resource Management Practices 22. Strategic Human Resource Management: Applying Technology to Function 23. Strategic Public Sector Labor Relations and High Performing Workplaces: Confrontation or Cooperation? 24. Total Quality Management (TQM) and Globalization?: Changing Role of Government, Challenges and Opportunities Index About the Editor and Contributors.