Preface SECTION ONE:THE SETTING 1 The Political Context of Public Personnel Administration 2 Competing Perspectives on Public Personnel Administration:Patronage,Civil Service,and Privatization 3 What Every Public Personnel Manager Should Know About the Constitution 4 Personnel Management in the Local Government Setting 5 The American Federal Bureaucracy:A Retrospective Look at Reinvention and Reform 6 Deregulating the Public Personnel Function 7 Stategic Human Resource Management 8 Issues,Challenges,and Changes in Recruitment and Selection 9 Why Public Managers Hate Position Classification 10 Compensation,Merit Pay, and Motivation 11 The Trials and Tribulations of Performance Appraisal Problems and Prospects on Entering the Twenty –First Century 12 Public Employee Benefits and the Changing Nature of the Workforce SECTION TWO:THE TECHNIQUES …… SECTION THREE:THE ISSUES SECTION FOUR:REFORM AND THE FUTURE