Human Resource Problems and State Management Performance Across Two Decades: The Implications for Civil Service Reform

Review of Public Personnel Administration

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 302-334

  Elling, Richard C ^a   Thompson, T Lyke ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

civil service; collective bargaining; human resource management; state management; state personnel practices; state personnel reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250183581     PISSN: 0734371X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734371X05281764     Document Type: Article

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