Mention the phrase Homeland Security and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority. This timely book is a comprehensive treatise on the constitutional and legal history behind the power of the modern state to police its citizens.Dubber explores the roots of the power to police -- the most expansive and least limitable of governmental powers -- by focusing on its most …

Succession planning and management and leadership development figure prominently on the agenda of many top managers. Yet, despite senior management interest, the task often falls to human resource management (HRM) and workplace learning and performance (WLP) professionals to spearhead and coordinate efforts to establish and operate planned succession programs and avert succession crises. In tha…

Improving how our government works is urgent business for America. In this book experts from the RAND corporation provide practical ways for government to reorganize and restructure, enhance leadership, and create flexible, performance-driven agencies.

Research and development (R & D) leads to innovation, and innovation leads to technological change. Technological change, in turn, is the primary driver of economic growth. Public/private partnerships -- cooperative relationships among industry, government, and/or universities -- leverage the efficiency of R & D and are thus a critical aspect of a nations innovation system. This text is intende…

This book takes a collective look at the existing human capital frameworks being used in government and provides a unifying structure, with four key pillars, on which government agencies can develop their human capital strategy. Using a knowledge management perspective on which to base the insights important to developing a human capital strategy, this book provides extremely timely and informa…

This book is about school principals and the surprises they encounter in their work. Among these surprises is that educational leadership differs signifi cantly from what well-educated, well-prepared, and well-meaning professionals thought it would be. We learned this from the compilation and analysis of stories, anecdotes, and vignettes told to us by more than 200 principals from across the Un…

This book offers an analysis of the relationship among collective bargaining, firm competitiveness, and employment protection/creation in the United States. The contributors offer an overview of the systemic perspectives of collective bargaining, then follow with four instructive case studies that provide insights into the process of collective bargaining and its current status in the evolving …

Disputes over valuation issues fill the court's dockets and for good reason, fair market valuations are required frequently by the law. The authors believe that approximately 243 sections of the Code and several thousand references in the Regulations explicitly require fair market value determination. Consequently, taxpayers file an estimated 15 million tax returns each year reporting an event …

State legislators are constantly making tradeoffs between changing taxes and providing public services. Not only must they reconcile their own policy preferences with the preferences of their constituents, but they must consider the impact of actions taken by both the federal government and competing states. Glenn Beamer uses a series of in-depth case studies in eleven states to show how legisl…

The Third Edition of the Compensation Committee Handbook provides a comprehensive review of the issues facing compensation committees. It covers functional issues such as organizing, planning, and best practice tips as well as compliance advice on the implications of Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations. New developments covered in the third edition include coverage of new SEC disclosure requir…