Staffing for foreign affairs : personnel systems for the 1980's and 1990's

Staffing for foreign affairs : personnel systems for the 1980's and 1990's /

William Bacchus warns that the American Foreign Service is in serious danger of being unable to meet changing responsibilities unless it reforms its present personnel system. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available...

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Main Author: Bacchus, William I., 1940- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1983
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
United States. > Foreign Service > Personnel management.
United States > Foreign relations administration.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • TABLES AND FIGURES
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ONE. Defining Personnel Needs: The Future Foreign Affairs Environment
  • TWO. The Need for Change: Failures of the Current System
  • THREE. Obstacles to Reform: Sources of Existing Weaknesses
  • FOUR. No Perfect Schemes: Dilemmas of Personnel System Design
  • FIVE. Support Systems: Data, Planning, Evaluation, Priorities
  • SIX. The Foreign Service Act of 1980: Moving from Diagnosis to Action
  • SEVEN. What Remains to be Done?
  • APPENDIX: Summary Analysis of H.R. 6790
  • Foreign Service Act of 1980
  • INDEX.

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