TY  - BOOK
AU  - Riccucci, Norma M.
AU  - Naff,Katherine C.
AU  - Hamidullah,Madinah F.
TI  - Personnel management in government: politics and processes 
SN  - 9781138338043
AV  - JK765 
U1  - 352.60973 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Civil service
KW  - Personnel management
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references pages (518-519)
N2  - It has been thirty-six years since the first edition of this book was published. In a note entitled "A Futuristic Prediction" that 1978 volume's authors acknowledged that many of the topics addressed were not yet mainstream, but confidently predicted they would become so. These included comprehensive human resources planning, the "automation" of human resource functions such as position classification and the growth of public personnel management as a profession. This seventh edition should make clear that these predictions have not only come to pass but have been exceeded
ER  -