Trends and Best Practices in State and Local Human Resource Management: Lessons to Be Learned?

This article summarizes a few of themost interesting findings of a comprehensive survey of human resource management best practices in state and local government. The 4-year project has examined the most enlightened human resource management initiatives extant in government agencies and provides a n...

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Published in:Review of public personnel administration 2004-09, Vol.24 (3), p.256-275
Main Author: Hays, Steven W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Best practice
Civil Service
Decentralization
Government Agencies
Human resource management
Local Government
Personnel Management
State government
Studies
Trends
United States of America
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Summary:This article summarizes a few of themost interesting findings of a comprehensive survey of human resource management best practices in state and local government. The 4-year project has examined the most enlightened human resource management initiatives extant in government agencies and provides a number of appealing reform examples that might be transportable to other governmental settings, including federal agencies. Many of the findings challenge accepted notions about the intractable nature of public personnel systems and provide potential models that can be emulated in public agencies at every level of government.
ISSN:0734-371X
1552-759X
DOI:10.1177/0734371X04263142