The New Public Personnel Administration

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.