Preferential Treatment In Public Employment And Equality Of Opportunity

The subject of equity in public employment is currently one of the most important aspects of public personnel management. Equity policies are meant to bring minorities and women into public employment often to correct past discrimination. How justly one could provide employment opportunities to minorities without adversely affecting and thus generating the animosity among the majorities, and how to ensure merit and administrative efficiency are very serious questions. Given the current debate in the United States, the experience of other nations would be of great use in developing proper public policies. Presented here is the experience of several nations by experts from respective countries.

This collection of writings is the only broad, interdisciplinary introduction to the struggle for EEO and its consequences.

C. Goals and timetables

Recoge: 1. Introduction and methodological approach - 2. Contextualising the study - 3. Exploring positive action from a legal perspective - 4. Perceptions of positive action in the European Union - 5. Perceptions of positive action in Canada, the United States and South Africa - 6. Positive action measures across different discrimination grounds, organisations and sectors - 7. Conclusions and recommendations.

Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Georgia, February 13-15, 1975, and sponsored by that university's Dept. of Philosophy and Religion and Dept. of History and Philosophy of Education, together with the Georgia State Committee for the Humanities.