The Declining Salience of Affirmative Action in Federal Personnel Management
- 1 July 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Review of Public Personnel Administration
- Vol. 4 (3) , 31-40
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0734371x8400400304
Abstract
The salience of affirmative action in federal personnel management will decline in the 1980s as a result of: (1) the failure of affirmative action to win a strong national consensus in its favor, which will reduce the organizational coherence and political integrity of affirmative action programs; (2) a continuing constitutional stalemate that makes it risky to pursue proactive affirmative action in the public sector with much forcefulness; and (3) the rise of new concerns in public personnel management, such as executive leadership, retrenchment, and productivity. However, the decline of affirmative action need not be equated with a reduction in progress toward the achievement of EEO and a socially representative public workforce.Keywords
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