SES
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The Office of Personnel Management's tools and pilot programs to improve federal hiring and workforce engagement have improved in some areas but stalled in others.
January 11, 2016 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will soon consider at least three separate bills on punishments for the Senior Executive Service and career appointees accused of misconduct or poor performance.
January 08, 2016 -
Reggie Wells, the Social Security Administration’s chief human capital officer and deputy commissioner of the Office of Human Resources, said the agency is seeing positive results after expanding its leadership development program to employees at the GS-9 level.
January 06, 2016 -
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.
December 22, 2015 -
Leaders within the federal manager community offered a mixed bag of reactions to President Obama's new executive order on Service Executive Service reform. Higher performance bonuses largely went over well, but others had more questions over the timeline and implementation of the initiatives.
December 17, 2015 -
The White House introduced new steps to attract, develop and retain current and future members of the Senior Executive Service. President Obama signed an executive order Dec. 15, which gives agencies four major tasks for implementing SES reform.
December 16, 2015 -
Jeri Buchholz, a strategic business development adviser for FMP Consulting and a retired chief human capital officer, argues the White House needs to ‘dig deep’ to make real improvements to the Senior Executive Service.
December 14, 2015 -
The White House also will announce the inaugural winner of the customer service award and recipients of the Presidential Rank Awards.
December 10, 2015 -
For the first time in four years, federal employee satisfaction and commitment improved among the workforce, according to the Partnership for Public Service's 2015 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government.
December 08, 2015 -
Recent bills introduced by Republican lawmakers aim to address what they believe are long-term, systemic issues at the senior executive level, but some worry the legislation is an overreach.
December 04, 2015 -
A group of former and current federal executives advise against making the mobility provisions in the executive order to reform the Senior Executive Service too narrow.
December 03, 2015 -
Four Republican congressmen are urging the Government Accountability Office to review the practice of hiring political appointees into career federal civil service positions.
December 02, 2015 -
Complaints abound whenever anyone writes on changing any aspect of the Senior Executive Service. Jeff Neal, senior vice president of ICF International, addresses some of those issues and does some “myth busting” on the subject, while also offering some facts about the SES.
December 01, 2015 -
A draft executive order, obtained by Federal News Radio, details short and long term initiatives to improve how members of the Senior Executive Service are recruited, retained and trained.
November 30, 2015 -
Salaries barely changed from fiscal 2013. But 12.2 percent more SES members received performance awards.
November 20, 2015