The Federal Service A Study Of The System Of Personnel Administration Of The United States Government PDF Download

The Federal Service: A Study of the System of Personnel Administration, of the United States Government by Lewis Mayers is a seminal work highlighting the importance of personnel in government administration. Mayers tries to fill a lacuna in existing literature by focusing more on the importance of personnel of which not too much has been explored and debated. It delves into the intricacies of personnel management, making note of existing challenges as well providing a hard hitting critique of set practices. The work aims to provide feasible and long term solutions to a rather delicate and nuanced problem of managing and administering personnel in government service. The title is divided into multiple sections, each dealing with a particular aspect of personnel administration, starting with an articulate introduction and spanning across issues like promotions, recruitment, standardization and organizational structures among others. The insights of the author shine through most chapters, especially when deconstructing complex concepts like federalism and contextualizing personnel administration within the existing government framework of the US. The Federal Service: A Study of the System of Personnel Administration, of the United States Government is interspersed with tables, figures and bulleted points for summarizing important snippets of information. The presence of detailed footnotes and an expansive index make this book an excellent reference point for both casual enthusiasts and researchers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.