Merit protection, federal agencies, and the new personnel management : explaining cross-agency variation in MSPB appeals deicisions, FY 1988 to FY 1997
By: DURANT, Robert F
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Contributor(s): WEST, Willian F.
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, January 2001Administration & Society 32, 6, p. 627-667Abstract: This study elaborates and extends earlier work on the U.S. Merit Sytems Protection Board (MSPB) that found that federal agencies differed in how well their personnel actions fared when appealed to the MSPB.The authors offer a theoretical framework for understanding cross-agency differecnes in MSPB appeals decisions and then test for face validity a variety of factors informing that framework. The authors argue that the important balance between managerial prerogative and protecting merit principles in the federal government could be jeopardized by the new personnel management (NPM) unless reformers and researchers consider in their work cross-agency variantions in production fucntions, types of personnel actions taken, agency culture, agency structure, legitimate functional needs, anticipatory reactions, agency responsiveness, and agency learning curves
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This study elaborates and extends earlier work on the U.S. Merit Sytems Protection Board (MSPB) that found that federal agencies differed in how well their personnel actions fared when appealed to the MSPB.The authors offer a theoretical framework for understanding cross-agency differecnes in MSPB appeals decisions and then test for face validity a variety of factors informing that framework. The authors argue that the important balance between managerial prerogative and protecting merit principles in the federal government could be jeopardized by the new personnel management (NPM) unless reformers and researchers consider in their work cross-agency variantions in production fucntions, types of personnel actions taken, agency culture, agency structure, legitimate functional needs, anticipatory reactions, agency responsiveness, and agency learning curves
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