Anticipated changes in human resource management: Views from the field

This article reports the results of a major survey that was distributed to the members of the International Personnel Management Association and the S ection on Personnel and Labor Relations of the American Society for Public Administration. The intent of the survey was twofold: to gauge the responde nts' perspectives on the relative importance of various personnel technique s, activities, and values, and to assess their projections concerning the c hanges that will occur during the next decade. In addition to providing an interesting snapshot of the perceived state of modernization within public- sector human resource management, the results reflect a considerable degree of agreement concerning the expected direction of further changes. Themes arising from the reinvention movement, as well as the technological revolut ion, dominate the response patterns. The implications of these perceived al terations in the field of human resource management are discussed, and pote ntial problem areas are identified.