Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems

About Evan M. BermanJames S. BowmanJonathan P. WestMontgomery R. Van Wart

Evan M. Berman is Professor of Public Management and Director of Internationalization at Victoria University of Wellington School of Government. Prior he was the Huey McElveen Distinguished Professor at Louisiana State University. His areas of expertise are human resource management public performance local government and public governance in Asia. He is past Chair of the American Society for Public Administrations Section of Personnel and Labor Relations. He has over 125 publications and 12 books including People Skills At Work (CRC Press 2011) Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts Third Edition (CQ Press 2012) and a trilogy of books on Public Administration in Asia (2010 2011 2013 CRC Press). He has published in all major journals of the discipline is Senior Editor of Public Performance & Management Review a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar  past University Chair Professor at National Chengchi University (Taipei Taiwan) and a former policy analyst with the National Science Foundation. James S. Bowman is a professor of public administration at the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy Florida State University. Noted for this work in ethics and human resource management Dr. Bowman is author of over 100 journal articles and book chapters as well as editor of six anthologies. He is co-author of The Professional Edge: Competencies in Public Service (2nd ed. Sharpe 2010) and Public Service Ethics: Individual and Institutional Responsibilities (CQ Press 2015). For nearly two decades he served as editor-in-chief of Public Integrity a journal owned by the American Society for Public Administration. A past National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration Fellow as well as a Kellogg Foundation Fellow he has experience in the military civil service and business. Jonathan P. West is a professor and chair of political science and director of the graduate public administration program at the University of Miami. His research interests include ethics public administration and human resource management. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters as well as nine books. He is co-author of Public Service Ethics: Individual and Institutional Perspectives (CQ Press 2015) American Politics and the Environment (2nd. Ed. SUNY Press 2015) and The Professional Edge: Competencies in Public Service (2nd ed. Sharpe 2010.) For nearly two decades he has been managing editor of the  Public Integrity journal. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army as a management analyst in the Office of the Surgeon General. Montgomery Van Wart is a professor at California State University San Bernardino and a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong. His publications include nine books and a substantial number of articles in the leading journals in his field. His most recent book is Leadership and Culture: Comparative Models of Top Civil Servant Training with Hondeghem and Schwella (Palgrave Macmillan 2015).  His research areas are administrative leadership human resource management training and development administrative values and ethics organization behavior and general management. He also serves on numerous editorial boards and as the Associate Editor for Public Productivity & Management Review. As an instructor he has spent as much time teaching and facilitating programs for executives and managers in public agencies as he has teaching graduate students. His training programs have been for individuals in all levels of government in the United States and executives and elected officials from foreign countries.