The Office of Personnel Management’s 2006 federal
workforce conference, scheduled for Feb. 27-March 3
at the Baltimore Convention Center, is meant at least
in part to prepare federal managers and supervisors for
a broader workforce transition to pay-for-performance
and other initiatives currently underway.
“Both the Defense personnel reform act, Working for
America Act as well as the other initiatives brought on
by the White House and Congress are going to be explicitly
addressed here in some of the sessions,” said Michael
Beckmann, acting deputy associate director of OPM’s Center
for Leadership Capacity Services.
However, the conference comes at a time with the Pentagon
has agreed to postpone implementing its new personnel rules
so a federal judge can assess their legality, and DHS’s
system was found to be illegal in a case last fall. And
the administration’s Working for America Act government-wide
initiative has not progressed in Congress since being
unveiled last year.
Still, Beckman said OPM is pressing forward by promoting
initiatives of the president’s management agenda and
emphasizing performance management this year, especially in
its “performance culture” breakout session following the
“practical strategies for human capital management” forum
on the second day.
The conference features four main forums overall covering
benefits, leadership, human capital management and security
investigations, with breakout sessions covering more specific
issues, something participants have asked for in the past.
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