This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Stehr, S. D. Articles by Jones, T. M. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Continuity and Change in Public Personnel Administration

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY

Ted M. Jones

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY

What is the state of public personnel administration research as we approach the new millennium? This article utilizes data derived from a content analysis that was conducted on all research articles published in the Review of Public Personnel Administration and Public Personnel Management since their inception The purpose was to examine the key characteristics, dominant themes, and the theoretical and substantive concerns that have shaped the field of public personnel administration, and to ascertain the extent to which these indicators have changed over time Our expectations were that changes internal to the field of public personnel administration and transformations in the social and political environment of public organizations over the last 25 years would both have an impact on the type of research published in these journals These predictions were only partially validated The findings reported here suggest that

Review of Public Personnel Administration, Vol. 19, No. 2, 32-49 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0734371X9901900205


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?