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Excerpt from Civil Service Administration Definition. Civil service administration has in the past been that branch of the public service which has jurisdiction over the selection of civilian employes required to carry on the public business. In most cases these employes have been selected by means of competetive tests. With the recent introduction of service records, the recent development of promotion examinations and the prosecution of efficiency studies, the sphere of the civil service administration has been gradually enlarged, and when the present day interest in salary classification, in service instruction and in centralized disciplinary control has been crystalized into legislation, civil service administration will include most of the activities which in private life are comprehended within the field of employment management. Free Appointment. (1) In the history of public administration, the era of the free uncontrolled appointment of subordinates preceded the era of civil service administration. When the public officer was free to appoint his own subordinates, he carried full responsibility for the acts and the character of the employes selected by him (2). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Administration, Vol. 2 of 15: Civil Service Their distrust of Democracy induced them to construct the electoral college for the choice Of a President, the original idea being that the people should elect their best and wisest men, who in turn should, untrammelled by outside pressure, elect a President. AS a matter Of fact the functions Of the electorate have now by time and custom be come Of little more importance than those Of so many letter-carriers. They deliver the electoral votes Of their states just as a letter-carrier delivers his mail. But in the presidential contest this year it may be we shall see a partial return to the ideals Of the men Of I 789; for some Of the electors on the bryan-sewall-watson ticket may exercise a choice between the vice-presidential candidates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"The Federal Service: A Study of the System of Personnel Administration, of the United States Government" by Lewis Mayers is a seminal work highlighting the importance of personnel in government administration. Mayers tries to fill a lacuna in existing literature by focusing more on the importance of personnel of which not too much has been explored and debated. It delves into the intricacies of personnel management, making note of existing challenges as well providing a hard hitting critique of set practices. The work aims to provide feasible and long term solutions to a rather delicate and nuanced problem of managing and administering personnel in government service. The title is divided into multiple sections, each dealing with a particular aspect of personnel administration, starting with an articulate introduction and spanning across issues like promotions, recruitment, standardization and organizational structures among others. The insights of the author shine through most chapters, especially when deconstructing complex concepts like federalism and contextualizing personnel administration within the existing government framework of the US. "The Federal Service: A Study of the System of Personnel Administration, of the United States Government" is interspersed with tables, figures and bulleted points for summarizing important snippets of information. The presence of detailed footnotes and an expansive index make this book an excellent reference point for both casual enthusiasts and researchers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Whitehall Whitehall is the name popularly given to the offices of the Central Government in England and to the Civil Servants in those offices who carry on the administration essential to the art of government. The functions per formed by this Civil Service and the position of the Service in the life of the political community will be the subject Of this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Reform for the Civil Service The reform of the Civil Service, by which I mean those reforms which will place it in a permanent state of efficiency, is a question which must necessarily become more and more urgent. On the one hand our administrative obligations have increased at an unprecedented rate - witness, amongst others, the Ministries of Education, Health and Pensions-ou the other, our financial resources have diminished. If I employ one gardener at a salary of £3 per week, and receive from him work to the value of £22 105. Per week, my weekly loss is 103. But if I employ three gardeners on the same terms, my loss rises to £1 10s. If we admit, then, as we must do, that the Civil Service is not efficient, we must also admit that the wastage has become vastly more serious with the increase in the number of our Departments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Twenty-Third Report of the State Civil Service Commission The Commission was also convinced that the Civil Service lav established a State administrative system which may be enforced everywhere as the Legislature may direct. The consti tutional provision of article 10. Section 2, safeguards local self government with respect to counties as well as cities. The administration of the civil service svstem in counties is delegated to the State Commission, and the Legislature might, in its dis cretion. Likewise have devolved the administration of the city civil service upon the State officers. The Legislature in creating municipal commissioners at its discretion lost none of its power to abolish their ofi'ices or to authorize their removal by the State Commission. The civil service system was established not merely or mainly to regulate the performance of the work of government, State or local. But to check a tendency demoralizing to the community and dangerous to political liberty. The sys tem. Though doubtless intended to improve the service. Was pri marily adopted to prevent public office being used as a weapon Of political warfare, and it is a matter of intimate concern to the people of the State at large that the offices of a city should not be used as spoils to build up or tear down a political party. The power to enforce the administration of' the merit system in Cities by removal of unfaithful municipal commissioners is prop reserved to the' State. City rules must be approved by the slate Commission, and the whole civil service system as estab lifllled by the Constitution is founded on the theory that the lolllliuistration of the law in the cities is not a local function. Thelefore the officers of that administration are not local oficers 0 {be meaning of article 10, section 2, of the Constitution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The British Civil Service: Home, Colonial, Indian, and Diplomatic A personal experience Of forty-two years inside the British Civil Service, and the practical handling as a journalistic leader-writer of a considerable number of Civil Service questions arising from time to time for discussion in the public press, may, perhaps, be deemed sufficient warrant to me for writing this book. I venture to think I shall be doing a public service by its issue. My aim throughout it has been to show, by stimulating examples afforded of men who have succeeded in reaching high positions and honours, what, by perseverance and indomitable energy, can be accomplished in the finest administrative service in the world employing something like a quarter of a million of persons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Principles of Public Personnel Administration Only a relatively few persons can be expected to concern them selves with the technical phases of this problem. There are many, however, who ought to have a fairly comprehensive grasp of the nature and scope of the problem as a whole. Especially is this true of the members of our national, state, and local legislative bodies, who are called upon to consider proposals looking to a reorganization of the personnel system of the governments with which they are connected, and the superior administrative officers of such governments. It is to this class that the present volume is chiefly addressed. The author, Mr. Arthur W. Procter, has for years been directly concerned, as a member of the staff of the late President's Com mission on Economy and Efficiency, the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, and the Institute for Government Research, with the study of problems of personnel administration; and, in 1915-1916 had charge of the investigation work of the important inquiry regarding the standardization of public employments of the state made by the Senate Committee on Civil Service of New York State. In one or the other of these capacities he made a personal study of the personnel systems of those states and cities that had made the most progress in recent years in the improvement of their systems for the handling of personnel matters. It is not to be expected that the positions taken by the author will in all cases be accepted. They represent, however, the conclusions that have been reached by one who has had exceptional opportunities for the prosecution of studies in this field, and will at least be suggestive and serve to open up the subject in a broad way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.