Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems
Author: Evan M Berman
Effective human resource management is a critical function in today's public workplace. The authors have written a Second Edition to this best seller to help readers develop key skills for success while also reminding them of the complex puzzles and paradoxes of management in the public sector. Human Resource Management in Public Service emphasizes active learning capturing student's interest through end-of-chapter questions and group exercises. The authors provide a selection of HRM material that primarily addresses the needs of generalist public managers while still being appropriate for those seeking an HR career. While highlighting the public service heritage, the chapters reflect the stages of the employment process from start to finish. Readers learn to effectively manage people in the essential aspects of recruitment, selection, training, legal rights and responsibilities, compensation and appraisal. Practical applications, inclusion of essential theories, tools and processes, and the lively, brief presentation of the text can be appreciated by both students and professors alike.
The Second Edition:
- Meets students needs: Added material relevant to the needs of students seeking to promote their careers and on-the-job effectiveness
- Provides end-of-chapter cases:Brief cases added to the end-of-chapter exercises
- Highlights new developments: Insertion of informative textboxes to highlight applications, recent developments, controversial issues, and the like
- Reflects changes in practice: Material in each chapter has been updated andmodified to reflect changes in practice, policy, law, and scholarship in local, state, and federal sectors
- Identifies useful websites: Links with specific, useful information provided in each chapter
- Discusses nonprofit organizations: Provides applications and discussions relevant to nonprofit organizations.
Interesting book: Entrepreneurship Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and the Macroeconomy or Whos Running America The Clinton Years
Texas Oil, American Dreams: A Study of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association
Author: Lawrence R Goodwyn
In this intricate narrative, Lawrence Goodwyn has undertaken to penetrate the legend of the wildcatter and bring into focus the people who endeavored to act out the American Dream in the remote corners of oil country. It is surprising to discover early on - even before the outlines of the wildcatter become clear - other vague but seemingly omnipotent actors occupying center stage: major oil companies. Independents and the majors are found to be abrasively yoked in awkward embrace: what immediately becomes clear for the first time in this intimate study is that the presence of one helps in central ways to define the other. Indeed, the whole relationship of individual enterprise to corporate enterprise becomes uniquely visible in the sources amassed over half a century by the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association. Texas Oil, American Dreams has a compelling quality whose ultimate meaning extends far beyond the borders of Texas because the enterprise of oil-finding and the wildcatters who have lived it constitute one of the most intense expressions of individual American striving. Above all, they kept careful records of their own efforts - when they prevailed and why, and when they met defeat and why.
Table of Contents:
| Foreword | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: First a Tradition, Then a Method of Survival | 1 | |
| 1 | Democracy Comes to the World of Oil | 9 |
| 2 | "Anarchy" vs "Order": Independents and the Majors | 41 |
| 3 | Closing Ranks | 57 |
| 4 | The Warning Years | 81 |
| 5 | Transformation | 117 |
| 6 | An Expanding Realm of Surprises | 159 |
| 7 | The Way of Life | 197 |
| Epilogue | 231 | |
| Appendix | TIPRO Presidents, 1946-1996 | 239 |
| Notes | 247 | |
| Bibliography | 265 | |
| Index | 269 |
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