Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction I. THE CIVIL SERVICE REFORM ACT: HISTORY, DESIGN AND STRUCTURE 1: The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978: The Design and Legislative History Patricia W. Ingraham 2: The President's Management "Reforms": Theory X Triumphant Frederick C. Thayer 3: Implementing Civil Service Reform: Structure and Strategy Carolyn Ban II. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM: THE RECORD TO DATE 4: Federal Employee Attitudes Toward Reform: Performance Evaluation and Merit Pay Charles Bann and Jerald Johnson 5: Performance Evaluation and Merit Pay: Results in the Environmental Protection Agency and the Mine Safety and Health Administration Karen N. Gaertner and Gregory H. Gaertner 6: Evaluating the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978: The Experience of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Mark Abramson, Richard Schmidt, and Sandra Baxterv 7: Delegations of Examining: Objectives and Implementation Carolyn Ban and Toni Marzotto 8: Labor-Management Relations Under CSRA: Provisions and Effects Donald F. Parker, Susan J. Schurman, and B. Ruth Montgomery 9: The Civil Service Reform Act and EEO: The Record to Date David H. Rosenbloom and Curtis R. Berry III. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM AS PUBLIC POLICY: CAN WE JUDGE SUCCESS OR FAILURE? 10: Civil Service Reform in Comparative Perspective: The United States and Great Britain David L. Dillman 11: Civil Service Reform in the Context of Presidential Transitions Gregory H. Gaertner and Karen N. Gaertner 12: Implementing the Civil Service Reform Act in a Time of Turbulence Mark A. Abramson and Richard E. Schmidt 13: Epilogue to "The President's Management Reforms: Theory X Triumphant" Frederick C. Thayer 14: Civil Service Reform, Then and Now: A Sojourner's Outlook David T. Stanley 15: Civil Service Reform and Public Policy: Do We Know How to Judge Success or Failure? Patricia W. Ingraham Appendix Contributors Index

About the Author

Patricia W. Ingraham holds a Ph.D. in Policy Sciences from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Carolyn Ban is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the State University of New York at Albany.