Both the general and specific elements of your comparison must include,

The impact of each strategy on the efficiency of service delivery,

The impact of each strategy on clients of the service

The impact of each strategy on the role of public servants with respect to the service,

The governmental jurisdiction's leverage should either strategy fail to produce expected service outcomes.

Human resource management in the public sector entails a number of discrete specialties: (a) recruitment/ staffing, (b) classification/compensation, (c) employee relations/conduct/performance and (d) labor-management relations.

Every one of these specialties have been the targets of criticism and suggested reform. Select one specialty. Review how this component of human resources management has functioned traditionally and has been criticized and modified over the years. Your review must,

(1) Describe how the specialty functioned under a traditional civil service model for a specific jurisdiction,

(2) Identify particular statutes and executive orders that changed policy with respect to the specialty, making sure to detail how policy changed,

(3) Describe major criticisms made of this specialty in the past twenty years and describe how these criticisms apply to the jurisdiction that you selected,

(4) Describe and discuss how the jurisdiction functions now, describing the effect of new concepts, laws and recent court decisions.

Your ability to demonstrate a concrete understanding of the specialty you choose to discuss is crucial. A concrete understanding is demonstrated by laws and court cases identified and explained, as well as by reform proposals described accurately with respect to their impact on the specialty area.

Much has been written in recent years about the significance of organizational culture as a source of public agency and/or corporate problems. Select a specific public agency (or one of its subdivisions) whose culture has been criticized, then discuss:

a) What are the characteristics, benefits and detriments associated with organizational culture by the organization theory literature,

b) What evidence you would seek to identify and define the existing culture,

c) Identify and analyze the major steps that could be taken to change this culture and evaluate the difficulties that these changes might present.

The quality of your answer depends on your ability to apply concepts from organization theory literature to the agency/organizational culture you have chosen to analyze. Your discussion must include major authors, books and journal articles that addressed contemporary organizational culture.