The Broadcasting Board of Governors has faced a leadership revolving door and low scores for employee engagement. It's new CEO, John Lansing, is trying to change that while pushing the agency deeper into new media. The former broadcasting and publishing executive is not quite five months on the job, and he tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin that he's not sitting still.
A new report from the Merit Systems Protection Board finds a gap between the training agencies say they'll give their senior executives, and the opportunities SES members actually receive.
OFPP Administrator Anne Rung and federal CIO Tony Scott issue a draft policy for public comment on making enterperisewide software licenses mandatory across the government.
Amid the last-minute maneuvering to pass the 2016 omnibus bill and avert a government shutdown, the Senate last week passed two bills that address government waste.
Congress managed to complete the heavy lifting and pass a budget for 2016. Now what? Lawmakers are off duty until after the start of the new year, and then what happens? For a look ahead, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to CQ Roll Call Senior Editor David Hawkings.
Military undersecretaries have limited time to work as their branches' chief management officers before the next administration takes charge.
With the ceiling for Grade 15 being raised and members of the Senior Executive Service getting a pay boost, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says federal managers are finally getting some long overdue love.
Within the omnibus spending package is a directive for agencies that states their consolidation plans will get preference for funding if they include shrinking office space to 130 square feet of usable space per person.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Navy to cut back on capacity and invest more in capability in a letter last week.
Specific guidelines for maintaining and keeping track of the federal cybersecurity workforce are included in the 2016 omnibus, which Congress passed last week. Agency leaders will assign each position an employment code under the creation of a new National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education.
Higher performance bonus caps and new language on basic pay rates for the Senior Executive Service in President Barack Obama's executive order are largely earning praise from the federal manager community. But other initiatives in the order are bringing up more questions than answers. John Salamone is a former executive director of the Chief Human Capital Officer's Council and now vice president at Federal Management Partners. He told Federal News Radio's Nicole Ogrysko not everything in the order is brand new. She shares that with Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
A small change in settlement authorities is making a big difference for the federal equal employment opportunity complainant process.
The trillion-dollar omnibus spending bill has been signed, but Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, said that doesn’t mean agencies get to immediately start spending.
Josh Plaskoff, director of learning and technology service development for HighPoint Global, argues that agencies need to transition their efforts to helping federal employees be more customer service focused as a way to improve employee morale and engagement.
After a year of being the target in a one-sided game of Russian roulette, federal workers can relax. At least for a couple of weeks, and probably longer than that.