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

"The Profession of Public Administration:  Promise, Problems and Prospects," in Donald  C. Menzel and    Harvey   L White, eds., The State of Public Administration:  Issues, Challenges, Opportunities (Armonk, NY:  M.E. Sharpe, 2010), pp. 000-000.
 
"The Success of Failure:  The Paradox of Performance Pay," Review of Public Personnel Administration   (forthcoming, 2010).
 
"State Government Human Resource Professionals' Commitment to Employment At Will," American Review of Public Administration (multi-author; forthcoming).
 
"Turbulence in Civil Service:  Whither the Public Service Ethos?" In S. Hays, R. Kearney, and J. Coggburn, eds., Public Human Resource Management: Problems and Prospects (5 th ed.; Englewood  Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, , 2009), pp. 327-338
 
"To Re-Hatch Public Employees or Not?  An Ethical Analysis of the Relaxation of Restrictions on Political Activities in Civil Service," Public Administration Review 69 (January/February, 2009), pp. 52-62 (co-author).
 
"State Little Hatch Acts: The State of the Nation?"  Review of Public Personnel Administration 29 (1) 2009 pp. 20-40 (co-author).

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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