Public service
Subtitle: callings, commitments, and constraints
By: edited by Marc Holzer.
Contributors: Holzer, Marc.
Series: ASPA classics
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Administrative agencies -- United States; Civil service -- United States; Administrative responsibility -- United States; United States -- Officials and employees
Description: "This volume includes perspectives on public service selected from six decades of major public administration journals. Recurring themes include: motivations to enter the public service, positive and negative images of public servants and of government, conflicts between loyalty to the organization and loyalty to the public, morale, burnout, and turnover.

The volume also includes cross-national analyses of the public service in other systems, proposals for rethinking public service systems, and questions as to the future of the public service."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.