This thoroughly updated and comprehensive guide to strategic human resource management in public and nonprofit organizations reflects the current knowledge, practice, legal, social, economic and technological environment in which public and nonprofit organizations currently operate. The book...

1. The independent nonprofit sector -- 2. Increased accountability in the nonprofit sector -- 3. Nonprofit governance -- 4. Understanding intergovernmental relations and public policy -- 5. Where revenues come from and the importance of financial management -- 6. Organizational effectiveness and...

This article recognizes that unions have adapted to a variety of workplace changes and have played a critical role in defining many public policies. Unions have been at the forefront of negotiating many family friendly contract provisions such as childcare, eldercare, domestic partnership...

This article briefly summarizes the issues local governments should review prior to implementing health and fitness programs for firefighters. The courts have upheld employer imposed fitness standards for law enforcement officers. This article generalizes the application to firefighters

Although unions are not typically associated with nonprofit organizations, many nonprofit agencies have unionized work forces. The author predicts that there will be an increase in the number of unions representing nonprofit employees. Parallels are drawn between the evolution of union i the...