Abstract In October 2020, President Donald Trump sought to convert many US federal civil
servants to at‐will employees by executive order. Trump's initiative, referred to as Schedule …

Employees are essential for the effective delivery of public services. Interest in human
resource management (HRM) has increased, yet we still have much to learn about the …

This Article tells the story of the transition from constitutional to administrative to privatized
governance. It is a story of the perennial struggle between state power and constraint …

For over a century, the value of employee protections and limits on direct political control has
been the sine qua non of a merit‐based bureaucracy for the US public service. Such …

In recent times much has been made of the threat some argue is posed by political advisers
to the impartiality of the Westminster civil service. Drawing on survey of senior New Zealand …

Public administration as a field of study finds itself in the middle of a fluid environment. The
very reach and complexity of public administration has been easy to take for granted, easy to …

This study assesses the impact of different job security rules on federal employees'
organizational commitment by looking at the effects of changes in the Department of …

Contemporary public and nonprofit management research has disproportionally
emphasized the importance of intrinsic motivation (especially service motivation) but has …

The Effective Public Manager Thoroughly revised and updated, the fifth edition of The
Effective Public Manager offers public administrators and students a classic resource and a …

Although studies in public management have identified personal attributes, job
characteristics, and organizational rewards as key factors that influence affective …