Public Sector Human Resource Management: Systems and Strategy: 4th Edition: Systems and Strategy (4th Edition)

Author: Ronald K. Krueger
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: On Amazon's academic book rankings, this book, "Public Sector Human Resource Management: Systems and Strategies" (4th Edition), co-authored by Professor Ronald K. Krueger of Florida International University and Professor John Narayan of Kansas State University, has long been at the top, becoming a standout research work in the field of public sector human resource management. Why has "Public Sector Human Resource Management: Systems and Strategies" garnered widespread attention from both industry and academia? Perhaps as the authors stated in the English edition's preface, "Writing the fourth edition is like writing the first edition, as it seems all the content is completely new." Strategic human resource management in the public sector and the cultivation of human capital have become one of the winning strategies for enhancing the productivity and competitiveness of the public sector.
From this perspective, the authors of this book, facing the complex external environment and the background of diverse value conflicts in public sector human resource management, critique the defects and unsuitability of traditional civil service systems. Through a comprehensive analysis of both the political process and management techniques, they reveal the new trends in current public sector human resource development, explore the mechanisms for balancing the diverse interests of public personnel management, propose various policies and strategies for developing strategic human resource management in the public sector, and provide practical experiences and pathways to solve human resource development issues through classic case studies.
This textbook organically links the technical issues of public personnel management with the policy issues of public policy formulation. To highlight the realities of politics and management, this textbook comprehensively and systematically explores the systems and strategies of public personnel management: its values, conflicts, political processes, and management techniques. For anyone interested in public personnel management or human resource management, this textbook is an excellent choice.