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Personnel Management
in Government Agencies and
Nonprofit Organizations

The long-awaited new edition of this highly praised text includes full coverage of policy issues and professional practice in nonprofit organizations, as well as at federal, state, and local levels of government. Retaining its accessible writing style, this sixth edition:

examines the latest management theories (such as employee engagement and motivation) and current issues including disability, privatization, merit systems, and family and medical leave;

roots the discussion in public policy issues, providing students with a better understanding of the actors involved and the broader context of personnel administration;

provides abundant pedagogical tools, including learning objectives, summaries, and discussion questions, to guide student understanding and foster critical thinking;

includes exercises and case studies throughout the book for individual or group work, helping students apply public personnel management concepts to real world situations.

In addition to full coverage of the increasingly important role of personnel management in nonprofit organizations, this new edition has been thoroughly updated to include timely material on the effects of the 2008 global recession, public service contracting, public sector unions, security concerns, performance measurement, remote management, management of volunteers, the challenges and opportunities of developing an organizational culture, and lessons from the experiences of countries around the world. This is a textbook that is ideally suited to prepare students to manage people effectively, whether in government, nonprofit organizations, NGOs, or in the private sector.

Dennis L. Dresang is Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Political Science and founding director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author of The Public Administration Workbook, 8e (Routledge, 2017).

Personnel Management
in Government
Agencies and Nonprofit
Organizations

SIXTH EDITION

Dennis L. Dresang

Published 2017
by Routledge
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The right of Dennis L. Dresang to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

First edition published as Public Personnel Management and Public Policy by Pearson Longman 1983

Fifth edition published by Pearson 2009

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Dresang, Dennis L., author. | Dresang, Dennis L.
Public personnel management and public policy.
Title: Personnel management in government agencies and nonprofit
organizations / by Dennis L. Dresang.
Description: Sixth edition. | New York : Routledge, 2017. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016054601| ISBN 9781138682122
(hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315545387 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Civil servicePersonnel management.
Classification: LCC JF1601 .D7 2017 | DDC 352.6dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016054601

ISBN: (hbk) 978-1-138-68212-2
ISBN: (ebk) 978-1-315-54538-7

Typeset in Berling and Futura
by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon, UK

To my wife, Maxine Austin,
with love

Brief Contents

Contents

Dennis L. Dresang is Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Political Science and founding director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses on state politics, public personnel management, and community issues. He has contributed to public service in a variety of ways: directing a research and public service seminar of La Follette School students examining community health issues and youth violence, chairing two major gubernatorial task forces, and serving on numerous tribal and local government commissions on human resource management issues. He is author of The Public Administration Workbook, 8e (Routledge, 2017).

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Employees and managers in government agencies and nonprofit organizations deserve our gratitude. They provide us with critical services and, with some obvious exceptions, work hard to ensure our health, safety, and security. They tend to our children and the needy. They pursue justice and watch over the institutionalized. Their jobs are challenging and the rewards are primarily the satisfaction of making progress. But they are depicted as overpaid and underworked.

This book is written with respect and with full awareness of the shortcomings of public organizations. The hope is that by understanding individual, group, and institutional behaviors and by knowing the history and traditions of management in the public sector, we will retain that which is good and be smart as we pursue improvements.

The scope of this text includes both government and nonprofit organizations. The absence of profit as a goal and yardstick certainly presents human resource managers in government and nonprofit organizations with similar challenges. Likewise, governments and nonprofits share missions that are social, educational, and service-oriented. On the other hand, constitutional provisions and the dynamics of the electoral process uniquely empower and constrain governments. The similarities and differences of government agencies and nonprofit organizations inform the discussion of human resource management. While the focus is primarily on the United States, lessons from the experiences of other countries are included.

The primary audience for this book is the individual who has responsibilities for supervising and managing people. Few individuals will actually have careers as specialists in personnel management. Almost every professional and manager in a public agency or nonprofit organization, on the other hand, will have responsibility for hiring, developing, disciplining, and managing other employees. Most readers of other texts or of previous editions of this one have had to translate messages directed at personnel specialists into relevant lessons for the more general concerns of achieving agency productivity and responsiveness.

A central theme of Reinventing Government, Total Quality Management, continuous improvement, and other management reform efforts since the early 1990s, is to improve governance by decentralizing and devolving responsibilities. Agency managers have acquired increased discretion. They also have increased responsibility for the technical tasks of personnel management. In some jurisdictions there have been significant cutbacks in the central offices that did position analyses, recruitment plans, examination development, employee training, and compensation administration. Agency managers now need to do these tasks. With these developments in mind, this edition continues to explain the tasks and techniques of personnel management functions.

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