Evan M. Berman is Professor of Public Management and Director of Internationalization at Victoria University of Wellington, School of Government. Prior, he was the Huey McElveen Distinguished Professor at Louisiana State University. His areas of expertise are human resource management, public performance, local government, and public governance in Asia. He is past Chair of the American Society for Public Administration s Section of Personnel and Labor Relations. He has over 125 publications and 12 books, including" People Skills At Work" (CRC Press, 2011), "Essential Statistics for Public Mana...