The Chief Human Capital Officers Council has issued its fiscal 2008 report to Congress summarizing challenges facing federal human capital professions that it hopes will serve as a guide to the incoming administration.
One of the challenges will be to manage the federal response to highly complex issues. According to the report, council members must find ways to improve the way the government operates by integrating and optimizing a federal workforce consisting of civil servants, contractors, and other employees to improve service and ensure complete transparency and accountability.
They must also find ways to support critical federal initiatives that require concerted interagency, intergovernmental, and public-private action.
To build and sustain federal employee leadership, OPM and the council need to attract and motivate a new class of federal employees by providing opportunities for organizational agility, learning cultures, performance-based rewards, and career mobility, the CHCOC said in its annual report.
That effort also must include facilitating inter-agency and intra-agency developmental assignments and career paths that enable the creation of collaboration and information sharing networks and thus, the capability to deal effectively with interagency crises.