GAO Finds Problems with Training of Grants Workforces
OPM, OMB and the Chief Human Capital Officers Council have taken steps to ensure that federal employees working on grants …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersSenate Panel Taking Up Range of Agency Management Bills
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is set to consider this week a range of agency management-related bills, …More
Unauthorized Releases of Postal Employee Information Examined
The IG’s office at the Postal Service has said it is looking into unauthorized release of employees’ personal information, following …More
Nominations Sought for ‘Sammies’ Awards
The Partnership for Public Service has opened the nomination period for its 2019 Service to America awards, or Sammies, a …More
DHS Still Facing Management Coordination Issues, Says GAO
DHS continues to face problems in building itself into” a cohesive, effective department” following its creation in 2003 from some …More
GAO Cites (Costly) Lessons Learned from Building Projects
A GSA program created as a “response to criticism that federal buildings are uninspiring” has resulted in some attractive and …More
TSA Whistleblowers Named Public Servants of the Year
The Office of Special Counsel has named three TSA employees as winners of its Public Servants of the Year award …More
GAO Sees Progress, More to Do on Acquisition Workforce
The government has made progress to address issues with the acquisition workforce in the decade since a special advisory panel …More
Groups Seek Changes to SES Candidate Development
Two good-government organizations and the Senior Executives Association have recommended strengthening rotational programs and other ways to prepare for entry …More
IG Raises Issues with Salary Overpayments at EPA
The IG’s office at the EPA has issued a management alert calling for “immediate attention” to the agency’s oversight of …More
OPM Offers Assessment Tool for Health and Wellness Programs
In October and November OPM will again offer an online tool called WellCheck for agencies to self-assess their employee health …More
DoD Should Do More to Reassess Structure, Says GAO
DoD is falling short of complying with a legal requirement to review the services and supplies provided by each defense …More
OPM Sends Guidance on Emergency Policies
With Hurricane Florence hitting the eastern coastline, OPM has sent guidance to agencies reminding them of personnel policies related to …More
Privatized Tax Debt Collection Off to Rocky Start
The latest program to use private debt collection agencies to collect overdue taxes has yielded barely more in revenue than …More
OMB Orders Streamlining of Grants Process
OMB has ordered a series of steps designed to reduce administrative burdens on both the providers and the recipients of …More
Senate Report Presses for Agency Compliance with Recommendations
A Senate report calls for greater transparency by agencies on their compliance with audit and investigative recommendations, saying that more …More
Court Rejects ‘Double Punishment’ Argument
A federal court has rejected an appeal of a federal employee’s firing based on an argument that the agency had …More
GAO Recommends Better Planning of Rotations at NSF
The National Science Foundation, an agency making extensive use of rotational assignments to bring in expertise from the outside, should …More
GAO Sees Little Progress in Using Performance Information
Agencies’ use of performance information to make decisions “generally has not improved” over the last four years, GAO has said, …More
FLRA Strategic Plan Stresses Preventing Conflicts
The FLRA has released a new strategic plan covering the next five years that among other things includes a goal …More
Make Sure Feedback to Employees Is Effective, MSPB Says
The federal government among other employers has emphasized the benefits to management of giving employees feedback on their performance and …More
MSPB Stresses Sense of Purpose in Employee Engagement
The MSPB has said that in response to its most recent merit principles survey, when asked which of 10 items …More
Agency Spending Binge Coming as Fiscal Year Winds Down
The bipartisan leaders of a Senate committee and its subcommittee on government contracting have asked more than a dozen major …More
VA Reports More Than 10 Percent Vacancies
The VA has said that 42,239 full-time positions are vacant, more than 40,400 of them in its largest component, the …More
OPM Makes Case for Combining Special Hiring Authorities
Agencies make more than nine-tenths of excepted service hires using just 11 of the more than 100 hiring authorities outside …More
Agencies Told to Report on Disabled Veteran Hiring
OPM has told agencies to report by December 1 on their compliance with the Disabled Veterans Affirmative Action Program, one …More
Job Applicant Pools Bigger but Not Better, Says MSPB
By making it easier to apply for federal jobs, the government has increased the number of applicants it receives but …More
GAO Cites Delays, Cost Increases in DHS Acquisitions
Of 24 large DHS acquisition programs, only 10 are on track to meet their cost and schedule goals, GAO has …More
NAPA Shares Takeaways on Shared Services
The National Academy of Public Administration has posted key takeaways from a conference it recently held on shared services. These …More
USPS Customer Service Center Needs to Improve Customer Service, Says IG
The Postal Service’s customer care centers suffer from “long hold-times for customers, abandoned calls, and customer frustration,” an IG white …More
