James S. Bowman is a professor of public administration at the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University. His primary area is human resource management. Noted for this work in ethics and quality management, Dr. Bowman also has done research in environmental administration. He is author of over 100 journal articles and book chapters as well as editor of six anthologies. Bowman co-authored, with Berman, West, and VanWart, Human Resource Management: Paradoxes, Processes and Problems (3rd ed.; Sage, 2009) and The Professional Edge: Competencies for Public Service (2nd ed.; Sharpe, 2009). He is editor-in-chief of Public Integrity, a journal of the American Society for Public Administration. Bowman also serves on the editorial boards of three other journals. A past National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration Fellow as well as a Kellogg Foundation Fellow, he has experience in government and business.


Recent Publications and Papers

Turbulence in Civil Service: Whither the Public Service Ethos? In S. Hays, R. Kearney, and J. Coggburn, eds., Public Administration Human Resource Management: Problems and Prospects (5th ed.; Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, forthcoming, 2009)

Human Resource Management:  Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems (3rd Ed.; Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage, forthcoming, 2009; co-author)

To Re-Hatch Public Employees or Not?  An Ethical Analysis of the Relaxation of Restrictions on Political Activities in Civil Service, Public Administration Review (forthcoming, 2009).
 
Ethics in Government:  No Matter How Long and Dark the Night, Public Administration Review (July/ August, 2008), pp. 625-637 (co-author).
 
Removing Employee Protections:  A See No Evil Approach to Civil Service Reform in L. Huberts, J. Maesschalck, and C. Jurkiewicz, eds., Ethics and Integrity in Governance: Perspectives Across Frontiers (Northampton, MA:  Edward Elgar, 2008), pp. 181-196 (co-author).
 
Employee Benefits:  Weighing Ethical Principles and Economic Imperatives, in C. Reddick and J. Coggburn, eds., Handbook in Employee Benefits and Administration (New York:  Taylor and Francis, 2008), pp. 30-53 (co-author).
 
The Research Problem, Method, and Serendipity, in G. Miller and K. Yang, eds., Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration (2e; New York:  Taylor and Francis, 2008), pp. 93-108.
 
American Public Service:  Radical Reform and the Merit System (New York:  Taylor and Francis, 2007; contributing co-editor).
 

Recent Awards and Achievements

2008 Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership Award for Best Paper in Ethics and Accountability

Best Book Award, Section on Personnel Administration and Labor Relations, American Society for Public Administration, 2001 (for co-authored Human Resource Management text cited above)

Associate, Centre for Business and Public Sector Ethics, Cambridge, United Kingdom (2006- )

Public Integrity, inaugural Editor-in-Chief, (owned by the American Society for Public Administration, and co-sponsored by International City/County Management Association, the Council on State Governments, Ethics Resource Center, and the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws), 1995-present (Public Integrity Annual superceded by the quarterly Public Integrity in 1998).

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