Lloyd G. Nigro is Professor of Public Administration, Urban Studies, and Political Science at Georgia State University. His fields of research interest are public sector human resources management and policy, administrative theory and ethics, and American political thought and public administration. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles and book chapters, including Violence in the American Workplace: Challenges to the Public Employer in the Public Administration Review (1996) with William Waugh and The Constitution and Administrative Ethics in America in Administration and Society (1991) with William Richardson. He has also co-authored and edited several books, including two widely read texts, Modern Public Administration and The New Public Personnel Administration. Prior to joining the GSU faculty in 1979, he was a member of the faculties of Syracuse University Maxwell School and the University of Southern California School of Public Administration.