Yong Lee

Public Personnel Administration and Constitutional Values (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Several Supreme Court battles during the Warren-Burger era finally brought public sector employees under constitutional protection, setting forth a new legal framework for personnel management. This new framework requires administrators to manage personnel foremost in compliance with the established constitutional principles without necessarily sacrificing efficiency. Public Personnel Administration and Constitutional Values is a sketch of this new framework in which constitutionalism and judicial accountability become defining characteristics. In the text the author provides, for the first time, a comprehensive review of case law principles in non-technical terms that are central to today's personnel management and decision-making: First Amendment freedoms, procedural due process, equal protection of the laws with respect to anti-discrimination, affirmative action, and compensation, and governmental and official liability. The author concludes that although excessive legalism may undoubtedly cause administrative timidity, a constitutionally competent administrator should be able to overcome this timidity; more important, a democratic administration grounded in constitutional values promises the best of all possible alternatives. This book is an invaluable addition to education and training for the students of public administration, as well as public administration practitioners at all levels in the United States. It also provides an important insight for the scholars of public administration in other parts of the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 1992
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313389276
• Artikelnr.: 37838075

Autorenporträt

YONG S. LEE is Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University. Well known for his contributions to research on science and technology policy and public administration, he is author of many articles, book chapters, and monographs on government-university-industry relations, the dynamics of technological innovation, and new science and public administration. His previous Quorum book is Public Personnel Administration and Constitutional Values (1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface A New Framework for Public Personnel Management: Toward Judicial
Accountability Property Rights, Liberty, and Due Process Protection Free
Speech and Organizational Politics Equal Employment Opportunity and Public
Policy Affirmative Action and the Constitution Pay Equity and a Battle of
the Sexes Immunities and Liability in Public Management Implications for
Management and Research Appendix: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964