Description

Public Human Resource Management: Essential Principles and Case Studies is written for undergraduate and graduate learners and for the legions of public servants participating in executive education and professional training programs. The idea that public service is a noble calling and essential profession is reinforced by the many examples and 25 case studies that reveal real-life working examples and experiences found in governmental organizations. The centrality of Human Resource (HR) management resides in managing people as assets—the core of the human enterprise—where the focus is on interpersonal or soft skills (effective listening, communicating, and self-improvement), and treating others with dignity, respect and comity.

The nature of work will be drastically affected by the rapidly changing demographic population in the United States, the accelerated growth of advanced technology, such as cloud computing, data storage capabilities, machine learning (ML), cognitive computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and the whiplashes in the workplace associated with transitioning from traditional to hybrid designs, to the Great Resignation, the return to office (RTO) movement, and the Great Detachment. And transactional HR will be replaced with ePHRM and eLearning.

In a classical sense, public human resource management (PHRM) while accepting the new, will embrace the standard “nuts and bolts” of HR management—the history, evolution and development of public service at all levels of government; important leadership notions; Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO); workforce changes (flexibility, flexibility, flexibility); strategic planning; recruitment; classification; employee training and development; motivation; performance evaluation; discipline and conflict resolution (grievances); collective bargaining; and ethical considerations. The one constant of management will remain solid: change is an imperative—learn to accept, understand, implement, and evaluate it; then, “rinse” and “repeat” the cycle.

As you read this book and interact with the major “road signs” on the highway of this human resource management journey, there may be ideas that you will easily applaud and others that will garner disagreement. What is important now is that you begin this significant dialogue with others and see how it compares with your own lived understanding and experiences.

This TURNKEY version of Public Human Resource Management offers the following instructor friendly resources.

Instructor Resources

• 25 Case studies
• 15 Essential views from practitioners and academics at the street level
• Sample syllabus
• Sample test questions

Topics Covered

See Table of Contents for Details

• Chapter 1 – The Evolution of Personnel Management
• Chapter 2 – Trends in State and Local Human Resource Systems
• Chapter 3 – Protecting Leadership Theories to Learning & Practice: A Synthesis
• Chapter 4 – Equal Employment Opportunity in the United States
• Chapter 5 – Women at Work
• Chapter 6 – Workforce Changes, Family Composition & New Issues
• Chapter 7 – Human Resource Planning
• Chapter 8 – Recruitment Systems & The Evolution of Recruitment
• Chapter 9 – Classification Systems & the Future of Work
• Chapter 10 – Compensation
• Chapter 11 – Performance Appraisal Systems
• Chapter 12 – Employee Training & Development
• Chapter 13 – Public-Sector Collective Bargaining
• Chapter 14 – Management in a Union Environment
• Chapter 15 – Employee Discipline & Conflict Resolution Systems
• Postscript – Change as a Constant in Public Human Resources
• Appendix A – A Casual Walk in the Garden of Organizational & Human Relations Theory
• Appendix B – Case Log & Administrative Journal Entry Template

Authors

Kenneth Meyer is an author of nearly two dozen books and 100 scholarly articles on public personnel management, public management practice, violence in American society, public administration and public policy. During his 50+ years of teaching at the university level, he has taught more than 45 diverse courses for the public administration, community planning and nonprofit management field. Among these courses is an international award-winning comparative public management and public policy class incorporating a European study abroad component. As an invited speaker, presenter and host for more than 50 presentations around the world, C. Kenneth Meyer keeps an active schedule speaking and consulting throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

Lance J. Noe contributes extensive teaching and consulting experience in state and local government to Public Human Resource Management. Lance is the director of the Center for Professional Studies at Drake University where he directs and facilitates public management, private sector, and nonprofit coursework in both professional certificate and graduate programs.

Jeffrey A. Geerts has been a leader in policy development and implementation while working for the Iowa Economic Development Authority and Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Mr. Geerts is currently the Special Projects Manager for the Iowa Economic Development Authority where he coordinates several nationally recognized rural innovative sustainable community demonstration projects. From 1998-2020, he co-instructed an international award winning graduate international comparative policy class that has studied in-depth best practices and model programs and policies throughout the United States and Europe. Mr. Geerts brings to these publications his experience serving on boards of directors of state and national nonprofits. Jeff has also served as an adjunct instructor for sustainable development courses at Drake University.

Dr. Anna Marie Schuh received her Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Illinois at Chicago, her Master of Science in the Management of Public Service from DePaul University, and her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has been an Assistant Professor at Roosevelt University since August 2002. In the 2001-2002 academic year, she was a Visiting Professor at DePaul University. Between 1988 and 2001, she was an adjunct professor at DePaul University, Roosevelt University, and George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. In 2001, she retired from the Federal government after 36 years. During her Federal career, she spent two years in the American Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, thirty years in the Federal human resource management area, and five years overseeing the deployment of Federal observers under the Voting Rights Act. Her last Federal assignment as Assistant Director for Oversight involved management of the Office of Personnel Management nationwide human resource management oversight program.

Dr. Lisa Saye is an author, painter, photographer and documentarian. She holds a M.S. from Troy University Montgomery and a D.P.A. from the University of Alabama -Tuscaloosa. She contributed to the 2022 text, The Craft of Public Administration (12th ed.) by Rouse, Meyer, Noe and Geerts. Lisa has worked in the public and nonprofit sectors in program evaluation, healthcare, disability and community services, economics, workforce development, statistical analysis and data measurement and outcomes. She has a host of international public sector experience as a Fulbright Specialist in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, International Consultant for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in The Maldives, and as Chair of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities and Associate Professor of Public Administration at American University Afghanistan (AUAF). She has participated in panel discussions and presented research and findings in conferences in Brazil, Nepal, Thailand, South Korea, France, Norway and South Africa. Her other international work includes conflict resolution and analysis in Haiti, China, India, Kenya, Rwanda, France and Canada. Lisa is currently a monthly contributor to PA Times where her popular articles have been read and commented on by readers worldwide. Most of the photos and artwork that accompany her articles in PA Times are her own creations. Lisa is presently publishing three nonfiction novels and has written two screenplays. She is often called on to write speeches and to comment on radio and tv programs on various aspects of national and international public policy.

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