Civil Service Reform in Georgia

In recent years there has been a growing interest in civil service reform designed to decentralize and deregulate the public personnel management process in an effort to overcome the perceived inflexibility, and lack of responsiveness of traditional civil service structures. In 1996, the state of Ge...

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Published inReview of public personnel administration Vol. 20; no. 4; p. 41
Main Authors Nigro, Lloyd G, Kellough, James E
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Columbia SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC 01.10.2000
Subjects
Civil service
Employees
Public sector
Reforms
Statistical analysis
Studies
United States > US
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Summary:In recent years there has been a growing interest in civil service reform designed to decentralize and deregulate the public personnel management process in an effort to overcome the perceived inflexibility, and lack of responsiveness of traditional civil service structures. In 1996, the state of Georgia enacted comprehensive reform of its civil service system that in many ways went beyond the kinds of changes that had taken place in other states. The state removed merit system protections for all employees hired after July 1, 1996 and placed authority for most personnel management decisions in line agencies and departments, leaving the state's central personnel agency to serve primarily as a consultant to those organization rather than as a regulator of the system. This article reports the findings of a statewide survey of supervisory and nonsupervisory employees working with the Georgia civil service, The findings indicate that more than three years after initial implementation of the reform employees are quite pessimistic about the effects of the reform on personnel management processes in state agencies. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0734-371X
1552-759X