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Former DHS CHCO Jeff Neal has some suggestions regarding OPM and what, specifically, the next president should do with it.
Former DHS CHCO Jeff Neal says agencies handle overpayments in different ways, but the basic processes are similar.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is concerned about four agencies that had particularly high retirement processing error rates in September. The Social Security Administration and departments of Agriculture, Interior and Veterans Affairs topped the list. Congress now wants the Government Accountability Office to review the process that agencies and the Office of Personnel Management each use to review a retirement claim.
The change of administrations always offers an opportunity for the federal government to do a bit of a reset. What does not reset is the federal workforce that carries out presidential programs.
A carrot-and-stick approach works only when we reward the people who are making things happen.
The bill contains a number of provisions that most advocates for the federal workforce consider to be a substantial lessening of civil service protection.
Former DHS CHCO Jeff Neal says OPM has done more than just put lipstick on a pig with its USAjobs renovation.
We clearly need civil service reform, particularly with respect to hiring, but it will do no good if agencies are unaware of the authorities they have and how to use them.
Former Homeland Security CHCO Jeff Neal says any rethinking of HR has to begin with staffing.
The National Park Service turned 100 this week. Former Homeland Security Department CHCO Jeff Neal celebrates America's "best idea ever".
A new Gallup poll that showed that the U.S. government is the least popular of any major industry in the U.S.
The Office of Personnel Management wants to make sure political appointees hired during the current administration don't have an unfair advantage getting career jobs in the next administration.
Like many things good ideas in government, over time "time to fill" has become a caricature of itself, says former DHS CHCO Jeff Neal.
The overall performance of an agency is driven by the vast majority of employees who do their jobs. If we really want to drive performance and change in government, we need to focus on those folks