本书是关于公共人事行政研究的论文集，全书将收录的论文分为四个部分：背景介绍、技术、问题和改革与未来。鉴于现代公共人事行政的发展日新月异，其面临的问题和挑战也越来越多，本书的编选在过去几个版本的基础上，增加了大量新的信息，着重探讨了当今公共人事行政的问题和前景。本书的作者多为公共人事行政领域的知名学者，并且大部分在该领域有丰富的实践经验或从事咨询工作。

海斯，南卡罗莱纳大学政治学系教授。
卡尼，东卡罗莱纳大学政治学教授。

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
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SECTION THREE:THE ISSUES
SECTION FOUR:REFORM AND THE FUTURE
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