Where theory and practice meet: Good government, merit-based civil service, and HRM courses

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dc.contributor.authorGuy, Mary E.en
dc.contributor.authorMastracci, Sharonen
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-06T12:49:34Zen
dc.date.available2023-10-06T12:49:34Zen
dc.date.issued2023-03en
dc.description.abstractMPA programs are the only place where public sector human resource management (HRM) is taught. When HRM is not among the list of required courses, programs forgo their responsibility to teach the next generation of public servants why merit-based civil service is crucial to a functioning democracy. The danger of ignorance is reflected in an Executive Order issued in 2020 that would have removed job protections from thousands of federal civil servants. While the Order was rescinded in 2021, it has many advocates and remains on the agenda. This is a wake-up call to MPA programs to require students to learn why job protections are the bedrock of good government, a bedrock as foundational as a free press and more foundational than budgeting skills. However, 97% of MPA programs require a budgeting course but only 72% require an HRM course. If theory and practice meet in MPA classrooms, then HRM has to be there.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/15236803.2023.2181624en
dc.identifier.eissn2328-9643en
dc.identifier.issn1523-6803en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/116419en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectCivil serviceen
dc.subjecthuman resource managementen
dc.subjectpolitics and administrationen
dc.subjectSchedule Fen
dc.titleWhere theory and practice meet: Good government, merit-based civil service, and HRM coursesen
dc.title.serialJournal of Public Affairs Educationen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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