TY - BOOK AU - Bacchus,William I. TI - Staffing For Foreign Affairs: Personnel Systems for the 1980s and 1990s T2 - Princeton Legacy Library SN - 9780691613093 U1 - 353.0089 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - POLITICAL SCIENCEĀ / American Government / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; TABLES AND FIGURES --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; ONE. Defining Personnel Needs: The Future Foreign Affairs Environment --; TWO. The Need for Change: Failures of the Current System --; THREE. Obstacles to Reform: Sources of Existing Weaknesses --; FOUR. No Perfect Schemes: Dilemmas of Personnel System Design --; FIVE. Support Systems: Data, Planning, Evaluation, Priorities --; SIX. The Foreign Service Act of 1980: Moving from Diagnosis to Action --; SEVEN. What Remains to be Done? --; APPENDIX: Summary Analysis of H.R. 6790 - Foreign Service Act of 1980 --; INDEX; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - William Bacchus warns that the American Foreign Service is in serious danger of being unable to meet changing responsibilities unless it reforms its present personnel system.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400853199 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400853199 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400853199.jpg ER -