Public Jobs and Political Agendas

The U.S. Postal Service has taken a major step in its battle for fiscal viability, it has announced plans to halt Saturday delivery of first-class mail.

Both the public sector and the private sector share concerns about how best to manage their employment functions — recruitment, evaluation, incentives, discipline, retention, compensation.  There are also substantial differences between these two sectors. A new C|M|Law Library title,  Public Jobs and Political Agendas:  The Public Sector in an Era of Economic Success, spotlights some important public/private differences.

Public sector workers and human resource practices came under scrutiny.  Not only because state and local governments that engaged in precarious fiscal practices.  This book discusses the difference in the timing of the response to the recession and its aftermath on revenues.  It also highlights the difference in employee compensation.  Intertwined with these two factors is the role of politics.

The editor, Daniel J. B. Mitchell,  is Professor Emeritus at UCLA Anderson School of Management and the School of Public Affairs, UCLA.  He is the author of Pensions, Politics, and the Elderly: Historic Social Movements and Their Lessons for Our Aging Society.