Human Resource Professionalism:A Panacea for Public Organizations

Discussing HR professionalism as a panacea, this book argues that an organizational excellence and prosperity has been achieved by focusing on HR professionalism. Nowadays, the necessity of this issue has been more increasingly revealed into public sector, especially in Third-World Countries Because pubic organizations and societies in these countries are continuously struggling with several challengeable issues and multi-dimensional corruptions such as fraud, bribery, unfairness, discrimination, over-consumerism, brain drain, degree mania, etc. The chapters are based upon research studies about public management, professionalism, human resource management, integrated approach to two last issues, and case studied in Iran as one of main Third-World Countries. The issues covered include: • New Public Management: Evolution vs. Revolution • The Concepts of Professionalism, particularly in Public Sector • Human Resource Management with a strategic and process based perspective as a SHRM model • Proposing a Professional Approach to HRM as a panacea for Public Organizations • Position of Professionalism in the State and Public Organizations, Roles and the Authorities Research Outcomes of Case Study (Iranian Public Organizations): • Factors affecting Professionalism in SHRM of Public Organizations with a diagnostic approach • Structural-Process view to Professionalism in SHRM of Iranian Public Organizations HR Professionalism: A Panacea for Public Organizations will be essential reading for those studying HR as a Profession, HR Professionals, Custodians of Public Organizations, the State and Public Organizations in the Third-World Countries, Policy Making Practitioners, and professional managers who concern about their Human Resources as the most valuable asset of their organizations. we hope that Mottos "to want, to know, to be able" & "thinking good thoughts, saying good words, and doing good deeds" realize throughout the world via institutionalizing professionalism into individuals, organizations, and the Societies all around the globe. Mostafa Ravand is PhD of Human Resources from the Institute of Economics & Demography, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan (under the supervision of VAK Organization in Moscow, Russia). He has more than 10 years experiences of working in HR areas with a strategic & process perspective. Although the process of completing this work has been long, we hope you agree that the wait was worthwhile.