The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook: From Theory to Practice Hardcover - 2017

Jessica K. A. Word is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Leadership at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. She currently serves as Director of the Nonprofit, Community, and Leadership Initiative and Graduate Coordinator for the School. She received her doctorate from the Rueben Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University in 2006. Her research focuses on capacity building in the public and nonprofit sector. Her work has been published in Public Administration Review, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Public Personnel Management, the Journal for Nonprofit Management, Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, and The Innovation Journal. She currently serves as the book review editor for the International Journal of Public Administration. She has worked with notable national nonprofits such as the Girl Scouts of the USA, Volunteers of America, and Opportunity Knocks on issues related to employee engagement and burnout.

Jessica E. Sowa is an Associate Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs in the College of Public Affairs at the University of Baltimore, USA. She currently serves as Director of the M.S. in Nonprofit Management and Social Entrepreneurship program. Her research focuses on public and nonprofit management, with an emphasis on organizational effectiveness, leadership, and the management of human resources in public and nonprofit organizations. Dr. Sowa's work has been published in Public Administration Review, Administration and Society, Public Personnel Administration, American Review of Public Administration, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and the Review of Public Personnel Administration. Her current research on high performance work systems in nonprofit human service organizations was funded by a grant from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Foundation. She serves on the editorial board of a number of journals in public administration and human resource management.