Editorial

• DOI: 10.1177/0091026013484576
• Date: 01 March 2013
• Author: P. Edward French
• Published date: 01 March 2013
• Subject Matter: Editorial

Public Personnel Management

42(1) 3 –4

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Editorial

Editorial

I am very pleased to present this first issue of Public Personnel Management (PPM)

as a SAGE Publications journal and would like to thank SAGE for allowing me to

serve as the first editor-in-chief under its ownership. We envision PPM as a top tier

scholarly journal that provides a forum for the exchange of ideas between scholars

from the academic and practitioner communities. The articles presented in each issue

aim to explore relevant aspects of the organizations, individuals, work environments,

and decisions that are part of the theory and practice of public human resource man-

agement. The interests of our readers should be served through refereed articles, case

studies, and commentaries that present a broad spectrum of timely management issues

and concerns at all levels of government, both nationally and internationally, and com-

prise methodologically sound research, critical analysis, and academic writing of the

highest degree. The first three issues in 2013 will include those articles that were pre-

viously accepted by the former publisher, International Public Management Association

for Human Resources (IPMA-HR). I would like to acknowledge the production team

at IPMA-HR, and those contributors who published in PPM over a number of years

and provided many significant contributions to our knowledge of emerging trends in

public personnel management.

My appreciation is also extended to each member of the new editorial board of

PPM who has graciously agreed to serve for the next 3 years as the journal transitions

into a new era of scholarly contribution to the field. This board comprises many distin-

guished scholars and experienced practitioners who represent the range and diversity

of public personnel interests today. These individuals are key to establishing and main-

taining PPM as a journal committed to preserving the high standards of academic rigor

for intellectual study while bridging the nexus between public administration practice

and management research in this field. I am extremely grateful to the SAGE publica-

tion team that has worked diligently with me to bring the March 2013 issue to print. I

would like to acknowledge Cynthia Nalevanko, Lucy Berbeo, Kay Felicano-

Ballesteros, and Purnima Narayanan for their endless collaborations with me as I tran-

sition into this new role, and Jennifer Stephenson and Gabriella Massari for their work

on the PPM ScholarOne Manuscripts System, which will allow new manuscripts to be

submitted through an online electronic process. A special thank you is offered to

Caragh M. Boyles, assistant director of career services at Mississippi State University

(MSU), for the organizational skills and assistance she has provided. And finally, I

would like to acknowledge the encouragement and support for this new endeavor that

has been extended to me by the administration at MSU.

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