What is the state of public personnel administration research as we approach the new millennium? This article utilizes data derived from a content analysis that was conducted on all research articles published in the Review of Public Personnel Administration and Public Personnel Management since their inception The purpose was to examine the key characteristics, dominant themes, and the theoretical and substantive concerns that have shaped the field of public personnel administration, and to ascertain the extent to which these indicators have changed over time Our expectations were that changes internal to the field of public personnel administration and transformations in the social and political environment of public organizations over the last 25 years would both have an impact on the type of research published in these journals These predictions were only partially validated The findings reported here suggest that
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