Strategic Public Personnel Administration: Building and Managing Human Capital for the 21st Century

523 Pages·2006·2 MB·English

by  Ali Farazmand

Strategic Public Personnel
Administration: Building
and Managing Human
Capital for the 21st
Century
Edited by
Ali Farazmand
PRAEGER
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STRATEGIC PUBLIC PERSONNEL
ADMINISTRATION
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STRATEGIC PUBLIC PERSONNEL
ADMINISTRATION
Building and Managing Human Capital
for the 21st Century
VOLUME 1
EDITED by ALI FARAZMAND
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2.Manpowerplanning. 3.Strategicplanning. 4.Policysciences.
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CONTENTS
VOLUME1
Preface ix
PARTI. STRATEGICPUBLICPERSONNELADMINISTRATION/HRM:
HISTORY,DEVELOPMENT,ANDTRANSFORMATION
1 StrategicPublicPersonnelAdministration:AConceptualFramework
forBuildingandManagingHumanCapitalinthe21stCentury 3
AliFarazmand
2 U.S.PublicPersonnelAdministrationinHistoricalPerspective 23
PaulP.VanRiper
3 TowardaNewPerspectiveinStrategicHumanResource
ManagementinthePublicSector 43
DonaldE.KlingnerandGamalSabet
4 AccountabilityChallengesFacingPublicSectorHRMinanEraof
Downsizing,Devolution,Diffusion,andEmpowerment 67
J.StevenOttandLisaA.Dicke
5 MakingtheTransitiontoStrategicHumanResource
Management:Precursors,Strategies,andTechniques 85
StevenW.Hays
6 ProductiveHumanResourceManagementforthe
21stCentury:ContextandStrategies 101
MarcHolzer,HedyIsaacs,andSeok-HwanLee
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7 “StrategicPlanning”asFakery:GovernmentDoesItWhile
PretendingItDoesNot 121
FrederickThayer
8 InnovationsinStrategicHumanResourceManagement:Building
CapacityintheAgeofGlobalization 141
AliFarazmand
PARTII. BUREAUCRACY,CIVILSERVICE,ANDPOLITICS
9 PoliticsandStrategicPublicPersonnelManagement:TheLeastBad
System? 163
RobertMaranto
10 EndingCivilServiceParalysis:EmergingPracticesandTrendsin
StateHumanResourceManagement 183
SallySelden
11 AModestProposalRegardingPoliticalAppointees 199
WilliamL.MurrayandGaryL.Wamsley
12 CivilServiceReformintheUnitedStates:AStrategicAnalysisof
Past,Present,andFuture 227
AliFarazmand
VOLUME2
Preface ix
PARTIII. ORGANIZATIONALBEHAVIORANDSTRATEGICPPM
13 PhaseModelofBurnoutasLeverageinMeeting“FutureForces”
ChallengingHRD 249
RobertT.GolembiewskiandThomasA.Myers
14 JobMobilityAssignments:MechanismsforHumanResource
CapacityDevelopment 281
LoisRecascinoWiseandBarbaraLamb
15 HighPerformanceWorkTeams 301
MichaelKlausner
16 LinkingPerformanceAppraisaltoOrganizationalStrategicPlanning:
AChallengingTaskintheNewCentury 319
BehroozKalantari
17 GownGoestoTown:On-CampusCommitmentandOff-Campus
ConsultingbyPublicAdministrationandAffairsFaculty 329
JamesS.BowmanandCaroleL.Jurkiewicz
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PARTIV. ISSUESANDTRENDSINPUBLIC
PERSONNELADMINISTRATION
18 EqualOpportunity,AffirmativeAction,andtheConstitution:New
ChallengesFacingPublicHumanResourceManagement 351
JackP.DesarioandJamesD.Slack
19 TheHumanResourcesPerspective
onWorkplaceViolence 383
LloydG.NigroandWilliamL.Waugh,Jr.
20 FramingGender,FramingWork:TheDisparateImpactof
TraditionalHRMPractices 399
MaryE.GuyandJenniferA.Killingsworth
21 StrategicHumanResourceManagement:ApplyingTechnologyto
Function 419
CaroleL.Jurkiewicz
22 StrategicPublicSectorLaborRelationsandHighPerforming
Workplaces:ConfrontationorCooperation? 441
DavidG.Carnevale
23 TotalQualityManagement(TQM)andGlobalization:ChangingRole
ofGovernment,Challenges,andOpportunities 459
AliFarazmand
Index 477
AbouttheEditorandContributors 493
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PREFACE
Thehistoryofpublicpersonneladministrationisasoldashumancivilizations.
Indeed,strategicpublicpersonneladministrationhasbeeninpracticeforat
least 2500 years, if not longer, with planning, recruitment, and development of
long-term career professional experts for key strategic positions in government
andpublicadministrationleadership.Severalgreatancientcivilizations—forex-
ample, Persia, China, Assyria, Egypt, and Rome—practiced strategic personnel
management systems, some systematically and others unsystematically. An ex-
ample of a systematic and elaborate strategic public management is what was
practiced by the ancient Persian Empire, so famous for its highly efficient and
effectivepublicbureaucracythatmanagedthelargestempiretheworldhasever
known.
This was evident in the planning for, and development of, political and ad-
ministrative leadership elites as well as key professional experts in the ancient
world-stateAchaemenidPersianEmpirethatgovernedvirtuallytheentireknown
world of the time. In building the historic structure of the palace city complex
of Persepolis in the 5th century B.C. that employed hundreds of thousands of
workersandtechnicalprofessionalsandengineers,educatedwomenalsoplayed
a major role as “compensation managers and supervisors” many of whom also
occupiedkeymanagerialpositionsinthehugebureaucracy.
Similar strategic positions and personnel were managed in all other areas of
themeritoriousPersianbureaucracy—frombuildingandrunningtheContinental
RoyalHighwaythatextendedfromPersepolisandPersianGulftoSardis,capital
oftheLydianSatrapyintheeasternMediterraneanarea;tobuildingandmanaging
hundredsofmileslongundergroundirrigationcanalsystems,Qanats;tothecon-
struction and management of the Suez Canal (circa 500 B.C.) under Darius the
Great. Although the centralized professional bureaucracy of Persia was pushed
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