Across the globe, governments are ending civil service as we know it. This volume presents the newest research that explores efforts to replace civil service systems with more flexible, non-tenured systems. Featuring both original and previously published essays by many of the leading practitioners and professors in the field of public administration, Radical Reform of the Civil Service asks big questions. Is radical reform of public bureaucracy needed? What is the scope of these reforms? What are the dangers of reform and why is it happening now? The essays in this book should be read by anyone interested in the future of public management.
Steve Condrey has over a quarter century of professional experience in human resource management and has consulted nationally and internationally with over 700 organizations concerning personnel-related issues.
He presently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Public Personnel Administration, is on the editorial board of Public Personnel Management, has served on the publications board of the American Society for Public Administration, and on the editorial board of Public Administration Review. Dr. Condrey is the editor of the Handbook of Human Resource Management in Government, Jossey-Bass, (1998, 2005 and 2010), and Radical Reform of the Civil Service, Lexington Press, 2001.
He is the 1998 recipient of the University of Georgia’s Walter Barnard Hill Award for Distinguished Achievement in Public Service and Outreach and was named Hill Fellow by the University of Georgia in 2004 (the University of Georgia’s highest public service faculty honor). He holds the IPMA-CP designation from the International Public Management Association for Human Resources. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Dallas. Steve retired from the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia in 2011. He is Vice President of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA). Dr. Condrey was appointed by President Obama as Chairman of the Federal Salary Council in 2010.