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.

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William I. Bacchus

• 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,