Office of Personnel Management
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The Senior Executive Service was created to produce strong federal managers and leaders who would move within and across agencies, to help better meet the nation\'s needs. But three decades after the creation of the SES, nearly half of the more than 7,700 current members have stayed in the same position throughout their SES careers, according to a new report.
February 28, 2012 -
Not sure about how much you need to save for retirement? A new online tool from the Office of Personnel Management helps feds figure out how to plan and includes projections for annuities and Thrift Savings Plan benefits.
February 27, 2012 -
Members of the Federal Managers Association join host Bill Bransford to talk about the group\'s annual convention. February 24, 2012
February 24, 2012 -
Nominations are now being accepted for the third annual Causey Awards. The awards honor exceptional performance by individuals in the human capital management field.
February 22, 2012 -
Whether the strategy is reducing personnel, consolidating offices or investing IT, \"every one of them impacts people,\" said Ron Sanders, the former chief human capital officer for the Director of National Intelligence and now the executive adviser for Booz Allen Hamilton.
February 20, 2012 -
According to Jorge Ponce, co-chair of the Council of Federal EEO and Civil Rights Executives, Latinos are under-represented across all job categories and levels of the government, all the way up to senior executive rank.
February 17, 2012 -
Director John Berry said the proposition in the 2013 budget request to increase pay by 0.5 percent and increase the contributions employees pay to their retirement by 0.4 percent is \"responsible\" and \"protects the benefit.\" OPM also would have to figure out how best to meet its mission with a flat budget next year. Berry said his top priority is reducing the backlog of retirement claims.
February 16, 2012 -
Women, who made up 44 percent of the federal workforce in 2011, had a job satisfaction score of 67.1 on a scale of 100, compared with 66.4 for men, according to a Partnership for Public Service analysis of the 2011 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, administered by the Office of Personnel Management.
February 15, 2012 -
John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management, offers his tips for managing the federal workforce during tough times.
February 15, 2012 -
The President\'s fiscal 2013 budget requests calls on agencies to \"redouble\" efforts to cut wasteful spending through government reorganization and cuts to improper payments.
February 13, 2012 -
Experts have long predicted a federal retirement tsunami, and the steady uptick in retirement applications across 2011 appears to bear that out. Overall, 104,810 retirement applications were filed by federal employees in calendar-year 2011, according to numbers provided by OPM — a 24 percent increase over 2010 levels.
February 10, 2012 -
Tammy Flanagan, the senior benefits director for the National Institute of Transition Planning, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss how feds should prepare for retirement.
February 10, 2012 -
Most agencies are on track to implement new diversity strategies by March 16, Office of Personnel Management Director of Diversity and Inclusion Veronica Villalobos told Federal News Radio. Five months ago, President Barack Obama directed agencies to improve the diversity of their ranks through strategic plans.
February 10, 2012 -
Ever since Washington, D.C., became the nation\'s capital government officials have wrestled — without much success — with what to do with government workers when it snows, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. Yesterday, Uncle Sam got to do a first test of a new government snow plan. So, how did it fare?
February 09, 2012 -
Federal government offices in the D.C. region remain open today but unscheduled leave and unscheduled telework are in effect due to light snow in the forecast.
February 08, 2012