The Review of Public Personnel Administration is the leading referred scholarly journal designed to promote and encourage new scholarship in public personnel management and labor relations. ROPPA strives to present timely, rigorous scholarship, analysis, and information on issues related to human resource management in public and nonprofit organizations.

Published quarterly, ROPPA is the premier journal in the field of public human resource management. ROPPA publishes articles that reflect the varied approaches used in the study and practice of public human resources management and labor relations, including studies that analyze the effects of specific personnel procedures or programs on the management function in government or that assess the impact of personnel management on public policy and administration. The journal also includes a Practitioner's Corner, legal briefs covering legal developments related to public sector human resource management, and reviews of new books, monographs, and publications in the field of HR.

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