Staffing For Foreign Affairs : : Personnel Systems for the 1980s and 1990s / / William I. Bacchus.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Bacchus, William I.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 407
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; TABLES AND FIGURES --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; ONE. Defining Personnel Needs: The Future Foreign Affairs Environment --; TWO. The Need for Change: Failures of the Current System --; THREE. Obstacles to Reform: Sources of Existing Weaknesses --; FOUR. No Perfect Schemes: Dilemmas of Personnel System Design --; FIVE. Support Systems: Data, Planning, Evaluation, Priorities --; SIX. The Foreign Service Act of 1980: Moving from Diagnosis to Action --; SEVEN. What Remains to be Done? --; APPENDIX: Summary Analysis of H.R. 6790 - Foreign Service Act of 1980 --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400853199; 9783110413441; 9783110413519; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400853199
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: William I. Bacchus.

William Bacchus warns that the American Foreign Service is in serious danger of being unable to meet changing responsibilities unless it reforms its present personnel system.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.