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First published on May 29, 2008, doi:10.1177/0734371X08318941

Review of Public Personnel Administration 2008;28:240.

A more recent version of this article appeared on September 1, 2008

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Personnel Demonstration Projects and Human Resource Management Innovation

James R. Thompson*

University of Illinois

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jthomp{at}uic.edu.


  Abstract
The Personnel Demonstration Project (PDP) provision of the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) of 1978 was intended to promote innovative human resource management (HRM) practices and policies. The early experience in this regard was not encouraging. However, during the second 15 years of its existence, the Personnel Demonstration Project authority has been critical to the diffusion of two important human resource management policy innovations, paybanding and category rating. This analysis explores the policymaking dynamic through which this diffusion has occurred.


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