President's Management Agenda
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The latest rendition of guidance from the Office of Personnel Management urges agencies to involve subject matter experts earlier on in the federal hiring process, better analyze and then describe a job's tasks and responsibilities and improve assessments to evaluate candidates.
September 13, 2019 -
The Trump administration has awarded nearly a million dollars to private-sector and academic partners for their work brainstorming on some of the most long-standing challenges facing the federal workforce.
September 10, 2019 -
Federal employees have a new flexibility to earn time off for religious reasons, while Congress considers a partial solution to resolve a shortcoming at the member-less Merit Systems Protection Board.
May 08, 2019 -
GSA and OMB announced a new competition to create a Government Effectiveness Advanced Research (GEAR) Center, a public-private partnership to bring together experts from agencies, academia and industry.
May 02, 2019 -
Having data behind which programs work and which don't can make some tough budget decisions at TSA go a little more smoothly.
April 25, 2019 -
Evaluating and improving employee engagement gets easier with a tool from a small team of senior leaders at the National Institutes of Health. And the team is determined to share that tool and their vision across government.
April 16, 2019 -
Working with UiPath, NASA set up four bots that automatically begin processing grant applications for the employees.
April 02, 2019 -
Dan Chenok, the executive director of the IBM Center for the Business of Government, reflects on the one-year anniversary of the newest management agenda.
March 29, 2019 -
OMB released an updated memo on category management, giving agencies new goals and reporting requirements for how they are managing the acquisition of commodity products and services.
March 25, 2019 -
Contractors watch the President's Management Agenda developments no less than federal managers. David Berteau joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for his view.
March 25, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, former venture capitalist Michael Kratsios is tapped to become the next U.S. chief technology officer.
March 22, 2019 -
The Trump administration is also planning to study the full scope of federal employees' pay, benefits other opportunities for recognition, in effort to prove to Congress that the workforce would benefit from more flexible performance-based awards over across-the-board pay raises.
March 21, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Trump administration says it now sees an opportunity to build on many of the 14 cross-agency priority goals outlined in the President's Management Agenda.
March 21, 2019 -
In effort to build a better talent pipeline and foster more collaborative, working relationships between government and universities, the Volcker Alliance has announced the creation of two "government-to-university" councils in Kansas City, Missouri, and Austin, Texas.
March 20, 2019 -
The detailed version of the President's 2020 budget request includes a series of familiar pay and retirement cuts and a wide variety of proposals designed to change the way agencies compensate, hire, manage and reward both current and future federal employees.
March 18, 2019