The Census Bureau, Department of Labor, the Environmental
Protection Agency and the Veterans Health Administration
have all implemented succession planning and management
efforts intended to strengthen organizational capacity,
but given government-wide fiscal challenges, the agencies
could enhance some of their succession efforts, the
Government Accountability Office has said.
It cited a number of agency programs aimed at managing
succession efforts, but added, “in the current budget
environment, there are opportunities to coordinate and
share these programs and create synergies through
benchmarking with others, achieving economies of scale,
limiting duplication of efforts, and enhancing the
effectiveness of programs.”
Performance measures for these programs could help
evaluate their effects on organizational capacity and
justify their value, according to GAO-05-585.
