Primer of Public Personnel Administration: Human Resource Development

This is a seminal book on the subject and profession of human resource management in governments. It is designed to enlighten readers and students of public administration on the management of civil service establishments by governments. It appraises the profession of public personnel administration in the context of changing political scenarios and other environmental forces. The author purports that his primer will induce not only the intellectual enjoyment of the subject, but that it will encourage readers to seize some of the exciting challenges of the profession and the emerging issues of personnel administration. The primer provides the reader with an adequate knowledge of personnel administration to appreciate and evaluate the activities and the effectiveness of the civil service of their respective governments. Gebregziabher contends that in developing countries the public sector is poised to play a predominant and decisive role. These public bureaucracies, he warns, have taken