Author: United States Civil Service CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Civil - Service Reform in the Treasury Department
Author: United States Civil Service CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Civil Service Reform as Demanded by Presidents and Statesmen
Author: Massachusetts Civil Service Association. Women's AuxiliaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service reform
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Good Government
Author: The Higher Civil Service in the United States
Author: Mark W. HuddlestonPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822974738
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Every time control of the U.S. presidency is passed from one party to another, the entire top layer of the executive branch changes. Thousands of men and women take down their pictures, pack up their desks, and move back into private life, just as others dust off their pictures and move in. The U.S. stands alone in this respect. Nearly every other advanced democracy is managed-save for elected officials and a few top aides-by an elite cadre of top civil servants selected by highly competitive examinations. Hudleston and Boyer tell the story of U.S. efforts to develop higher civil service, beginning with the Eisenhower administration and culminating in the passage of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. Arguing that the highly-politicized U.S. system simply hasn't worked, they examine why and how reform efforts have failed and offer a series of recommendations for the future.
The Business Value of Civil Service Reform
Author: History of the Federal Civil Service, 1789 to the Present
Author: United States Civil Service CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
History of the Federal Civil Service, 1780 to the Present. United States Civil Service Commission
Author: United States Civil Service CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Annual Report of the United States Civil Service Commission
Author: United States Civil Service CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Application of the Civil Service Reform Association to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Discharge of Gen. Curtis
Author: Civil Service Reform Association (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
The Future of Merit
Author: James P. PfiffnerPublisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"Passage of the Civil Service Reform Act was controversial, and there is still controversy over its effectiveness. A book of this sort will be well received and anxiously read by specialists in public administration, public policy, and public personnel administration."-H. George Frederickson, University of Kansas The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 was the most far reaching reform of the federal government personnel system since the merit system was created in 1883. The Future of Merit reviews the aims and rates the accomplishments of the 1978 law and assesses the status of the civil service. How has it held up in the light of the National Performance Review? What will become of it in a globalizing international system or in a government that regards people as customers rather than citizens? Contributors examine the Senior Executive Service, whose members serve between presidential appointees and the rest of the civil service. These crucial executives must transform legislative and administrative goals into administrative reality, but are often caught between opposing pressures for change and continuity. In the concluding chapter Hugh Heclo, many of whose ideas informed the 1978 reform act, argues that the system today is often more responsive to the ambitions of political appointees and the presidents they serve than to the longer term needs of the polity. On the other hand, the ambition of creating a government-wide cadre of career general managers with highly developed leadership skills has not been fulfilled. Other contributors helped to frame the 1978 act, helped to implement it, or study it as scholars of public administration: Dwight Ink, Carolyn Ban, Joel D. Aberbach, Bert A. Rockman, Patricia W. Ingraham, Donald P. Moynihan, Hal G. Rainey, Ed Kellough, Barbara S. Romzek, Mark W. Huddleston, Chester A. Newland, and Hugh Heclo. Six former directors of the Office of Personnel Management commented on early versions of these chapters at a 1998 conference.