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The White House recently appointed Loren DeJong Schulman as Associate Director for Performance and Personnel Management at the Office of Management and Budget.
A very old congressional procedure known as the Holman Rule has popped up lately. It allows a House member to amend an appropriations bill so eliminate a specific program or defund the salaries of those working on it.
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. Recent guidance — long and complicated guidance — went to agency heads concerning the President’s Management Agenda.…
The action plan from the Biden administration for the infrastructure bill seeks to ensure projects across the nation get done on time and on budget.
The Office of Management and Budget last week released what it called a learning agenda for federal agencies. It's the research they need to do to answer big questions. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with someone who wonders whether the learning agenda actually gets to the root challenge of agency performance: Bob Tobias, professor in the Key Executive Leadership Program at American University.
Now the government has new programs to launch and 1000s of people to hire. But our next guest cautioned the public sector should avoid the mistake of trying to act like a business, a piece of advice the government often does get.
Do groups generate better ideas when they meet in person or virtually? Bob Tobias, a professor at American University, talked about a new study, in studio, with Federal Drive host Tom Temin.
AFGE has begun the process to separate its union chapter for ICE officers, essentially dissolving the council's collective bargaining agreement.
Bob Tobias, a professor in the Key Executive Leadership Program at American University, has looked into this question.
The Biden administration's management agenda, which the White House built out with a lot of detail last week, focuses on just three things.
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 back in the office? And a second question: Would companies and government agencies do better to educate managers on how to better deal with a workforce that's scattered -- some home, some in the office?
Discussion about the federal workforce rarely go three minutes, before someone laments the need to get young people into government. Yet three quarters of the federal workforce is over 40, a much higher percentage than in the private sector. So it may be no surprise that age discrimination complaints in government are more common than in the private sector.
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. You might be one of the federal employees who filled out that so-called pulse survey. It’s the…
The Chief Human Capital Officers Council recently got a revival from the Biden administration. They hope of help modernize the federal workforce.