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  • Public Service Ethics

    Individual and Institutional Responsibilities

    Ethics—in all its exemplary and exhausting forms—matters. It deals with the most gripping question in public life: "What is the right thing to do?" Bowman and West examine individual-centered and organization-focused ethics, applying ideas and ideals from both to contemporary dilemmas. The authors take on controversial issues—from whistle blowing incidents to corruption exposés—to explain how they ... Read more

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  • Career Planning, Development, and Management

    An Annotated Bibliography

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Human Resource Management
    Substantial literature has emerged on the subject of career planning, development, and management. Academic research by economists, educators, political scientists, psychologists, and sociologists has made the study of careers in organizations an important interdisciplinary focus in the social sciences. This proliferation of materials has resulted from a growing concern with such career issues as ... Read more

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  • Public Service Ethics

    Individual and Institutional Responsibilities

    The study and practice of ethics, in all its exemplary and execrable forms, matter now more than ever. It deals with one of the most gripping questions in life: "What is the right thing to do?"Public Service Ethics: Individual and Institutional Responsibilities, Third Edition, introduces readers to this personally relevant and professionally challenging field of study. No matter the topic—the ... Read more

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  • Human Resource Management in Public Service

    Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems

    Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems offers provocative and thorough coverage of the complex issues faced by employees and managers in the public sector, including managing under tight budgets with increasing costs, hiring freezes, contracting out, and the politicization of the civil service. Continuing the award-winning tradition of previous editions, ... Read more

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  • Achieving Competencies in Public Service: The Professional Edge

    The Professional Edge

    The new context and character of public service - shifting values, entrepreneurship, information technology, and multi-sector careers - require a 'skills triangle' of technical, ethical, and leadership abilities. This concise and readable work focuses on these three essential skills, and describes what it means to be a consummate professional public servant. Essential reading for both ... Read more

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  • The Professional Edge

    Competencies in Public Service

    The new context and character of public service - shifting values, entrepreneurship, information technology, multi-sector careers - require enhanced technical, ethical, and leadership skills. This concise and readable work describes what it means to be a consummate professional public servant. It sets standards for everyone who conducts the public's business and links them with performance ... Read more

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  • American Public Service

    Radical Reform and the Merit System

    Series series Public Administration and Public Policy
    Understanding the effects of radical change on public personnel systems is critically important both now and in the future to all those interested in the quality of American democracy. Civil service reform is occurring at all levels of government both in the United States and abroad.American Public Service: Radical Reform and the Merit System is a collection of papers that examine the innovations, ... Read more

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  • American Politics and the Environment, Second Edition

    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Changing our environmental policy has been at the forefront of many political discussions. But how can we make this change come about? In American Politics and the Environment, Second Edition, Byron W. Daynes, Glen Sussman and Jonathan P. West argue it is critical that we must understand the politics of environmental decision making and how political actors operate within political institutions. ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Human Resource Management in Government

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