Reforming (transforming?) a public human resource management agency : the case of the Personnel Board of Jefferson County, Alabama

This book offers a first-hand look at the importance of human resource management (HRM) processes to not just one public agency but a large group of public administration entities that rely on a public HRM agency (the Personnel Board of Jefferson County) for its HRM processes. More specifically, the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Sims, Ronald R. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2010]
SeriesContemporary human resource management.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806617524
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-438-0
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 317 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. A general overview of change management, reform, and the personnel board / Aaro Toomela
  • Chapter 2. Civil service reform and public human resource management
  • Chapter 3. The personnel board of jefferson county, alabama: A first look
  • Chapter 4. Understanding the situation at the personnel board: The diagnosis and receiver's 90-day report
  • Chapter 5. Restructuring the personnel board
  • Chapter 6. Infrastructure reform: Revamping the personnel board's policies and procedures
  • Chapter 7. Implementation of a new human resource information management system at the personnel board
  • Chapter 8. Hrd efforts at the personnel board
  • Chapter 9. Consent decree compliance (developing and administering lawful selection) procedures
  • Chapter 10. The five-year classification and compensation survey project
  • Chapter 11. Renovating the personnel board's physical facilities
  • Chapter 12. Transition of leadership from the receiver to the three member board, personnel director and the citizens supervisory committee
  • Chapter 13
  • Epilogue: Post-receivership and keeping the personnel board reform momentum going
  • References.