Learn More about HRM in Public Service

• Date: 01 December 2002
• DOI: 10.1177/0734371X02022004009
• Published date: 01 December 2002
• Subject Matter: Articles

REVIEWOFPUBLICPERSONNELADMINISTRATION / Winter 2001

LEARNMOREABOUTHRMIN PUBLIC SERVICE

Created in 1979, the Section on Personnel Administration and Labor

Relations (SPALR) of the American Society for Public Administration

(ASPA) promotes the importance of human resource management and labor

relations in public service organizations. It emphasizes:

•public human resource management as a profession;

•civil service reform;

•human resource planning, management, and evaluation;

•job evaluation and compensation;

•labor-management relations;

•constitutional rights of employees; and

•diversity and affirmative action.

All section members receive two free publications: the Review of Public Per-

sonnel Administration and a newsletter, Periscope.

WHAT IS ASPA?

ASPA is a nonprofit professional organization dedicated to improved

management in the public service through exchange, development, and

dissemination of information about public service. More than 10,000 mem-

bers include government administrators, nonprofit executives, educators,

researchers, consultants, students, and civic leaders. Since its inception in

1939, ASPA has provided national leadership in advancing the science and

art of public administration. It is the only organization of its kind in the

United States aiming broadly to improve public service at the national,

state, and local levels. ASPA publishes the PublicAdministration Review and

the PATimes, as well as a variety of other hardcopy and online publications.

HOW TO JOIN SPALR

Want to join? If you are currently a member of ASPA, send your check

for $25.00, payable to the Section on Personnel Administration and Labor

Relations, to ASPA, 1120 G Street, N.W., Suite 700, Washington, D.C.

20005. If you are not a member of ASPA, you must join to become a mem-

ber of SPALR. Visit http://www.aspanet.org to learn more about ASPAand

SPALR, or call (202) 393-7878, or visit your local ASPA chapter.

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