Public Human Resource Management

Public Human Resource Management: Problems and Prospects brings together exemplary contributors who provide concise essays on major contemporary public human resources management issues.  Organized into four parts – setting, techniques, issues and prospects – and covering the major process, function and policy issues in the field, the text offers valuable wisdom to students and practitioners alike. With sixteen new and eleven updated chapters authored by the leading figures in the field as well as by up-and-coming new scholars, the new edition works as a primary or supplementary text for courses in human resource management or issues in public administration.

"Two leading scholars of public human resource management have assembled an impressive set of authors to address comprehensively the critical developments and issues in the field." , "Public Human Resource Management covers all the bases. Kearney and Coggburn bring together leading scholars writing, in clear and persuasive ways, on core themes and leading issues in public sector HRM. The leading compendium just got better! An excellent find.", "Once again Kearney and Cogguburn have assembled a useful reader.  The pieces are nicely balanced between providing up-to-date overviews of current debates and providing guidance to practitioners on policy options.  Chapters on strategic management, performance, dispute resolution, and labor relations go beyond material in the leading public personnel textbooks."

Richard C. Kearney is professor and director of the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. He was previously on the faculty of the University of Connecticut, Storrs, East Carolina University, and the University of South Carolina. His research on human relations management, public administration, and state and local politics and administration has been published in Public Administration Review, Public Personnel Management, Administration and Society, Publius, Urban Affairs Review, Policy Studies Journal, and many other journals. The 9th edition of his book (with Ann O’M Bowman) State and Local Government will be published in 2012. He received his Ph. D in political science from the University of Oklahoma in 1977.