State government human resource professionals’ commitment to employment at will

dc.contributor.authorCoggburn, Jerrell D.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBattaglio, R. Paul, Jr.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBowman, James S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorCondrey, Stephen E.en_US
dc.contributor.authorGoodman, Dougen_US
dc.contributor.authorWest, Jonathan P.en_US
dc.contributor.utdAuthorGoodman, Dougen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-10T22:45:33Z
dc.date.available2013-01-10T22:45:33Z
dc.date.created2008-07-17en_US
dc.date.issued2010-02-11en_US
dc.descriptionNo full text available. Use the DOI persistent link to see the final published version. A subscription or fee may be necessary to view the article.en_US
dc.descriptionThis article won the American Review of Public Administration 2010 Best Paper Award.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the attitudes of a key set of state government officials—state human resource (HR) professionals—toward employment at will (EAW) in state government. It presents original survey data obtained from HR professionals in four southern states: Georgia, Florida, Texas, and Mississippi. Drawing on these data, the article creates an index measuring respondents’ commitment to EAW, as measured by their attitudes toward arguments used to advocate for EAW. The index is used as the dependent variable in an exploratory regression analysis indicating the importance of respondents’ experiences with the exercise of EAW discretion, years of public sector service, educational background, and state context to explaining variation in commitment to EAW. The article concludes with a discusen_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationCoggburn, Jerrell D., R. Paul Battaglio, James S. Bowman, Stephen E. Condrey, Doug Goodman, and Jonathan P. West. “State Government Human Resource Professionals’ Commitment to Employment at Will.” The American Review of Public Administration 40, no. 2 (March 2010): 189–208.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10735.1/2482en_US
dc.publisherSageen_US
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0275074009333596
dc.rights© 2010 The Author(s)en_US
dc.sourceAmerican Review of Public Administrationen_US
dc.subjectEmployment at willen_US
dc.subjectCivil service reformen_US
dc.subjectPublic managementen_US
dc.subjectPersonnel managementen_US
dc.titleState government human resource professionals’ commitment to employment at willen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreArticleen_US

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