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The Office of Management and Budget is asking agencies to come up with new performance management plans by June 30. Human capital experts say the OMB guidance prompts agencies to consider several important questions but focuses too heavily on addressing poor performers, and not enough on recruiting and retaining top employees.
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey points to one agency that's trying to shrug off its image as a haven of sexual harassment.
DoD and Congress have been working on trimming the civilian workforce for years. Will the new OMB memo do anything different?
A Veterans Affairs Inspector General report caused the agency to take immediate action and rethink who it put in charge of the Washington, D.C. medical center. The report detailed serious deficiencies in inventory management, including surgeries and other procedures being performed with expired or possibly non-sterile materials, or postponed due to a lack of supplies altogether.
In one case, medical staff had to borrow bone cement from a vendor to finish two knee replacements.
Jeff Neal, a former chief human capital officer at the Homeland Security Department, identifies what hiring reforms the government needs and describes how to implement them.
Federal News Radio wants to hear from the federal workforce about the lift of the federal hiring freeze, and agencies' short- and long-term plans for government reorganization. Take our short, anonymous survey and tell us what you think.
Public Service Recognition Week is just around the corner. Margot Conrad, director of education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what feds can expect this year.
The federal hiring process is a disaster and the only way to fix it is to rebuild it, based on a foundation of merit, says former DHS chief human capital officer Jeff Neal.
Dan Scavino, assistant to the president and White House director of social media, sent the tweet in question on April 1 encouraging voters to vote against Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) in a primary.
The FBI headquarters and Labor Department headquarters are just two exchange projects recently derailed. Auditors at the General Services Administration say the agency's Public Building Service must address several issues with the exchange program if it wants projects like those to be beneficial to the government and taxpayers.
Employee engagement efforts at the Securities and Exchange Commission have taken off in the past two years, Lacey Dingman, SEC chief human capital officer, said in an interview. SEC has risen from 27th to 6th among mid-sized agencies in the past five years on the Partnership for Public Service's Best Places to Work rankings.
The Army cast off nearly 700 soldiers in the second half of 2016.
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney sent a memo to agency leaders outlining a series of long and short term actions agencies need to take around reducing the number of employees, improving how they measure employee performance and restructure their mission areas.