INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. TABLES AND FIGURES xi
4. PREFACE xiii
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxi
6. INTRODUCTION 1
7. ONE. Defining Personnel Needs: The Future Foreign Affairs Environment 11
8. TWO. The Need for Change: Failures of the Current System 36
9. THREE. Obstacles to Reform: Sources of Existing Weaknesses 69
10. FOUR. No Perfect Schemes: Dilemmas of Personnel System Design 108
11. FIVE. Support Systems: Data, Planning, Evaluation, Priorities 166
12. SIX. The Foreign Service Act of 1980: Moving from Diagnosis to Action 194
13. SEVEN. What Remains to be Done? 221
14. APPENDIX: Summary Analysis of H.R. 6790 — Foreign Service Act of 1980 237
15. INDEX 251