Bob Tobias

Kiran Ahuja, the nominee to be Office of Personnel Management Director, appears before a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hybrid nominations hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Rebuilding the Office of Personnel Management will take years longer

The Office of Personnel Management still has a lot of rebuilding to do. The Trump administration tried to roll its functions into the White House and GSA.

OPM Reorganization

A few ideas for OMB’s new Associate Director for Performance and Personnel Management

Workforce

Maybe the Holman rule should be renamed the ‘No man rule’

Congress

The missing ingredient in the President’s Management Agenda

Management

FILE - In this July 28, 2014, file photo, lightning strikes over Lake Mead near Hoover Dam that impounds Colorado River water at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona. The sweeping $1 trillion infrastructure bill approved by the Senate this week includes funding for Western water projects that farmers, water providers and environmentalists say are badly needed across the parched region. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Can a 10-year federal infrastructure plan really sustain itself for 10 years

Congress

New learning agenda may not be enough to actually improve agency performance

Management

The government is not a business, so why should it act like one

Modern Government

telework, work from home, home office, federal employees

When people come together, the best ideas come, or do they?

Hiring/Retention

Long-term implications of AFGE’s ‘difficult decision’ to disclaim ICE officers’ union chapter

Unions

Bob Tobias, professor at the Key Executive Leadership program of American University

Agencies aren’t always capable of investigating their own whistleblower complaints

Agency Oversight

Professor in the Key Executive Leadership Program at American University

President’s management agenda benefits from being specific

Workforce

The perks of being a wallflower and the rush to get everyone back in the office

A large survey sponsored by Slack, a intra-company messaging application, raises the question: Is it really a good goal for organizations to get everyone…

Workforce

The federal workforce skews older than average. Is that bad?

Discussion about the federal workforce rarely go three minutes, before someone laments the need to get young people into government. Yet three quarters…

Workforce Rights/Governance

Agency managers have new data about the workforce. Will they make use of it?

Workforce

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