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Beginning with the decade of the nineties, the idea of strategic management of government and nonprofit organizations burst upon the scene. Traditionally, governments have been thought of as being unchanging, resistant to change, or at the most, changing by reaction to pressure. Strategic management suggests both the idea of adaptation to change forces as well as defining mission and concerting future organizational design and behavior accordingly, perhaps even changing the environment. Work force management is an important dimension of this new approach. Both direct and indirect compensation of this work force to achieve an array of possible objectives is a critical aspect of work force management.
The strategic approach to public organizations is also concerned more than ever with obtaining optimal performance, however it may be defined. Compensation, as a subset, is very much part of this quest for organizational performance and performance improvement. Thus, there is a linkage of subparts, each with many potential alternatives: organizational mission/objectives, compensation objectives, compensation system design, and the role of pay in obtaining desired type and levels of performance. This design chain is the focus of this book.
List of contents
Preface
The Context of Public Employee Compensation
The Vicissitudes of the Psycho-Legal Contract Between American Governments and Their Employees
Job Worth and Compensation
Direct Compensation: Objectives, Policies and Structures
Pay and Performance
Case Studies Involving Compensation Incentives and Performance Improvement
A Strategic Management View of Benefits
A Strategic Vision of Compensation for the Civil Service
Select Bibliography
Index
About the author
GILBERT B. SIEGEL is Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Professor of Public Administration, School of Public Administration, University of Southern California. He has consulted for various governments nationally and internationally in areas of human resource management. He has authored or coauthored five other books on public management subjects, and publishes regularly in journals such as Public Personnel Management, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Public Administration Review, and Public Productivity and Management Review.
