Crucial Issues for Public Personnel Professionals
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The future of public service is filled with problems. Public personnel professionals will be required to exert leadership skills of expertise and professionalism. Public service leadership must incorporate anticipatory management. Organizational structure must be developed to assist the public personnel adminstrator's dual roles of politician and civil servant. Long term issues affecting the public personnel administrator include cost limitations, alternative systems, collective bargaining, and performance management. Three final areas requiring long term attention are: a balance between politics and administration, continued professional excellence under fluid conditions, and enhanced professionalism.
Publication Name: Public Personnel Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0091-0260
Year: 1984
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The Municipal Personnel Profession: Where Do We Go from Here?
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Public personnel administration has undergone many changes in recent decades. The two major catalysts for change were the labor movement and civil rights movement. Public personnel administrators now play a more active role with additional responsibilities. Human resource management, labor relations, and fair employment practices are all part of the public personnel administrator's duties. Several trends in the field include: a merging of employee relations and personnel administration into human resource management; a scarcity of financial resources, and organizational development.
Publication Name: Public Personnel Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0091-0260
Year: 1984
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Conflict and Change in Personnel Management: An International Challenge
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Since the year 1789 public personnel administration has evolved through many stages. The future of public personnel administration faces four major challenges. The first is the problem of maintaining professional standards while responding to political forces. The second challenge stems from the rapid demographic changes in the labor force. The economic conditions influence the personnel administrator in his striving for productivity. The last challenge relates to the way personnel administrators interpret their profession and their duties.
Publication Name: Public Personnel Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0091-0260
Year: 1984
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