Dramatic Reform in the Public Service: At-Will Employment and the Creation of a New Public Workforce

As is widely known, the state of Georgia transformed its civil service system in the mid-1990s. A new performance management and pay-for-performance plan was put into place, and authority for personnel policy was significantly decentralized, but perhaps most notably, all employees hired or promoted...

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subjects Administrative reform
At will employment
Attitudes
Civil law
Civil Service
Classified employees
Conditions of employment
Decentralization
Employee supervision
Employees
Employment
Employment Changes
Georgia
Georgia (State)
Georgia (U.S.A.)
Government employees
Human resources
Impact analysis
Indictments
Law reform
Management
Organizational structure
Pay for performance
Performance management
Personnel management
Personnel policies
Public administration
Public Sector
Public servants
Reform
Reforms
Reorganization
State court decisions
State employees
Studies
Tenure
United States
Workforce
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