Learning Activity 2.4

Learning Activity 2.4-Unit 2

 

The Professional Edge: Competencies in Public Service

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Authors-

James S. Bowman, Jonathan P. West, Evan M. Berman, and Montgomery Van Wart.

James S. Bowman, Is professor of public administration at the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University. His primary area is human resource management. Noted for his work in ethics and quality management, Dr. Bowman has also researched environmental administration. He is the author of nearly 100 journal articles and book chapters, as well as editor of five anthologies. Bowman co-wrote, with Evan M. Berman, Jonathan P. West, and Montgomery Van Wart, Human Resource Management: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems in 2001. He is editor-in-chief of Public Integrity, a journal sponsored by the American Society for Public Administration, the International City/County Management Association, the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws, the Ethics Resource Center, and the Council on State Governments. Bowman also serves on the editorial boards of three other professional journals. A past National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration Fellow, as well as a Kellogg Foundation Fellow, he has experience in the military, in the civil service, and in business.

Jonathan P. West is a professor of political science and director of the Graduate Public Administration program at the University of Miami. His research interests include human resource management, productivity, local government, and ethics. He has written six books and nearly seventy-five articles and book chapters. Quality Management Today: What Local Government Managers Need to Know (1995), and The Ethics Edge (1998) published as part of the Practical Management Series by the International City/County Management Association. His co-authored book, titled American Politics and the Environment, was released in 2002. Dr. West is managing editor of Public Integrity and a member of the editorial board of two other professional journals. He has experience as a management analyst working for the Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army. He is a member of the American Political Association, the American Society for Public Administration, the Western Political Science Association, and the Southern Political Science Association.

Evan M. Berman is an associate professor in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida. He is active in the American Society for Public Administration and was the 1998–2000 chair of the Section of Personnel and Labor Relations. He has written more than seventy-five publications in human resource management, productivity, ethics, and local government. Berman has served on the editorial boards of Public Administration Review and the Review of Public Personnel Administration. His books include Productivity in Public and Nonprofit Organizations (1998) and Public Sector Performance (1999). Berman has been a policy analyst with the National Science Foundation and works with numerous local jurisdictions on matters of team building, productivity improvement, strategic planning, and citizen participation.

Montgomery Van Wart is an associate professor and head of the Department of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida. He co-wrote The Handbook of Training and Development for the Public Sector (1994) and wrote Changing Public Sector Values (1998). His research on public sector training and development, organization change, ethics, comparative public administration, leadership, and productivity has appeared in major public administration journals.

currency- The source is still current, Published in 2016

Publication- The ebook is first published by M.E. sharp. Published 2016 By Routledge. Routledge is an is the world’s leading academic publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business. Copyright © 2004 by Taylor & Francis.

APA (American Psychological Assoc.)
Bowman, J. S. (2016). The Professional Edge: Competencies in Public Service: Competencies in Public Service. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

MLA (Modern Language Assoc.)
Bowman, James S. The Professional Edge: Competencies in Public Service: Competencies in Public Service. Routledge, 2016. EBSCOhost.

PURPOSE- Authors revealed to the knowledge and its application that applies to complex, contradictory, and competitive in public service today.  However, Technical professionals through education and experience intended. Also, using old information in collaboration with decent results and leading change were part of the emphasis.  The audience is public interest to drive change.

Any Biase in this conduct not noticed, they included a wide variety of perceptions to lead change.

 

References:

Bowman, James S. (2016) The Professional Edge: Competencies in Public Service. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge