Stephen E. Condrey is senior associate and program director for human resource management with the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government. He is also adjunct professor of public administration and policy in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He has over a quarter of a century of professional experience in human resource management and has consulted nationally and internationally with more than five hundred organizations on personnel-related issues. He presently serves as managing editor of the Review of Public Personnel Administration, and formerly served on the publications board of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and the editorial boards of Public Administration Review and Public Personnel Management. He is the 1998 recipient of the University of Georgia’s Walter Barnard Hill Award for Distinguished Achievement in Public Service and Outreach and was named Distinguished Hill Fellow in 2004. Condrey is the immediate past chair of the ASPA’s Section on Personnel Administration and Labor Relations and holds the IPMA-CP designation from the International Personnel Management Association. He is also the president of Condrey and Associates, Inc., a national human resource consulting firm. He may be reached by phone at (706) 548-8938 or via e-mail at steve@condrey-consulting.com or condrey@cviog.uga.edu.