Public Personnel Administration And Labor Relations

by Riccucci; Norma M

• ISBN13: 9780765616791
• ISBN10: 0765616793
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The readings in this volume will enlighten and enliven the contents of any standard text covering public administration human resource management.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Public Personnel Administration and Labor Relations

Public Personne Administration

History and Politics

The Triumph of Techniques over Purpose

The Neutrality of the Public Service

Civil Service Versus Merit

Public Personnel: Agenda for the Sixties

Institutions, Functions and Process

Understanding Attitudes Toward Public Employment

Politics and Merit: Can They Meet in a Public Service Model?

Merit Pay in the Public Sector: The Case for a Failure of Theory

The Dangers of Participative Management: A Test of Unexamined Assumptions Concerning Employee Involvement

The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Workplace: Management's Responsibilities in AIDS-Related Situations

Drug Testing in Public Agencies: Public Policy Issues and Managerial Responses

Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action, and Representative Bureaucracy

Mini-Symposium: Affirmative Action in Public Employment: Introduction

Mini-Symposium: Affirmative Action in Public Employment: Some Concluding Observations

Minorities and Women in State and Local Government: 1973-1975

A Symposium: Minorities in Public Administration

A Symposium: Women in Public Administration: Introductory Comments

Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Backward: The Status of Women's Integration into Public Management

Equal Pay for Comparable Work: Stimulus for Future Civil Service Reform

Civil Service Reform

A Symposium on Civil Service Reform

The Politics of Civil Service Reform

The Winter Commission Report: Deregulation and Public Personnel Administration

Reinventing the Federal Civil Service: Drivers of Change

Legal Developments

The Public Employment Relationship and the Supreme Court in the 1980s

Due Process and Public Personnel Management

Curbing Patronage Without Paperasserie

Drug Testing in the Public Sector: A Legal Analysis

The Legal Evolution of Sexual Harassment

Public Sector Labor Relations

History and Politics

Whitleyism and Collective Bargaining

Collective Negotiations in the Public Service: The Implications for Public Administration

Bilateralism and the Merit Principle

Labor Unions and Collective Bargaining in Government Agencies: A Panel Discussion

Public Sector Labor Relations: Agent of Change in American Industrial Relations?

Collective Bargaining, Impasse Resolution, and Strikes

Collective Bargaining in Public Employment: Form and Scope

A Union View of Collective Bargaining in the Public Service

The New Dimensions of the Strike Question

Public Sector Collective Bargaining: Is the Glass Half Full, Half Empty, or Broken?

Public Employee Unionization and Collective Bargaining in the Southeast

Employee Participation and Labor Management Cooperation

A New Frontier for Employee-Management Cooperation in Government

Union-Management Partnership in the U.S.Department of Labor

Labor-Management Relations and Participative Decision Making: Toward a New Paradigm

Critical Developments in Public Sector Labor Relations

"Last Hired, First Fired" and Public Employee Layoffs: The Equal Employment Opportunity Dilemma

Bumping, Blocking and Bargaining: The Effect of Layoffs on Employees and Unions

What Public Employee Relation Boards and the Courts Are Deciding: Mandatory Subjects of Bargaining

Index

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