New DoD System a Management Tool
Although the pay banding and pay for performance elements of the new Defense Department personnel system are yet to be …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersOPM Issues Update to Pay Increases
New salary tables for the 4.1 percent pay increases of most white-collar civilian federal employees cannot be issued until an …More
GAO: DoD Fumbling Security Clearance Backlog
The Department of Defense has a backlog of personnel security clearance requests at around 360,000 that stands to increase the …More
New DoD System a Management Tool
Although the pay banding and pay for performance elements of the new Defense Department personnel system are yet to be …More
Management Overhaul Required for Performance-based Pay
In the National Academy of Public Administration forum, panelists including experts on performance-based pay and high-ranking government officials agreed that …More
Performance-based Pay Expanding
Half of the federal civilian workforce, excluding postal workers, could be under a performance-based pay system in one to two …More
GAO: Missing Information in WMD-Agency Report
The Department of Defense’s, Defense Threat Reduction Agency tries to control and reduce the threat of weapons of mass destruction …More
OPM Appoints Advisor to Help Establish DoD National Security Personnel System
The Office of Personnel Management has appointed George Nesterczuk as OPM’s senior advisor to the Director of the Department of …More
HHS Recruitment Program Responds to Impending Retirements
Like many agencies in the federal government the Health and Human Services Department will likely lose much of its leadership …More
OPM Hails NASA Personnel Management
After months of criticism of NASA’s management culture following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the Office of Personnel Management has …More
DHS Shows Them The Money
One question of top interest to managers and line employees of the Department of Homeland Security and Defense Department is …More
GAO Report Cites High Performance Management Strategies
Comptroller General David Walker put forward several agency-transformation strategies that could lead to higher performance at the General Accounting Office. …More
Ratings Could Make a Bigger Difference
The distribution of ratings for senior executives could have an important effect on OPM’s decisions on carrying out recently enacted …More
Three-Fourths in SES Get Top Ratings
About three-fourths of career senior executives get the highest rating available to them in their performance evaluation systems, according to …More
Schedule C Appointee Briefings Scheduled for April 12
Schedule C appointee briefings will take place April 12, following briefings scheduled for March 2, in Washington D.C., providing an …More
Unions and DHS Meet Over Proposed Personnel Rules
Meetings are ongoing between those designing the Department of Homeland Security’s personnel system and the heads of federal employee unions, …More
DHS Managers Won’t Have Free Rein
The proposed rules on the DHS personnel system show that the agency took into account comments it received over the …More
Board Rejects Homeland Security Non-Hire Appeal
The Merit Systems Protection Board recently found it could not hear the appeal of an individual who was not selected …More
GAO: Agencies Need Better IT Planning and Measurement Links
The strategic planning practices agencies have in place for managing IT are not always linked to specific performance measures that …More
Competitive Sourcing in the Red
Agency competitive sourcing efforts consistently receive yellow and red ratings on the President’s Management Agenda scorecard. According to the fiscal …More
Agencies Receive eGov Awards
The Industry Advisory Council’s eGov Shared Interest Group and the Federal Chief Information Officers Council in partnership with e-Gov have …More
FMA Convention and Training Seminar
The Federal Managers Association’s annual convention is scheduled for March 20-25 at the Double Tree Hotel in Arlington, Va. Its …More
DoD Personnel System Could be Model
President Bush’s 2005 budget request promotes the strategic management of human capital initiative under the President’s Management Agenda and cites …More
Board Splits Over Whether Employee Retired Involuntarily
The Merit Systems Protection Board recently split over whether a former Internal Revenue Service Tax Examining Assistant involuntarily retired after …More
GAO: IRS Making Program Management Progress But Not Done Yet
The Internal Revenue Service has taken the General Accounting Office’s advice to implement management controls, deliver certain business applications and …More
Internet and Management Emphasized in Face of Flat IT Budget
According to the Bush administration’s fiscal 2005 budget request the government needs to strengthen IT management and leverage the Internet …More
DHS Funding Small Businesses to Develop New Technologies
As a way to harness the greater science and technology community in support of its mission, the Department of Homeland …More
GAO: DoD Lax About Contractor Tax Abuse
Department of Defense and Internal Revenue Service records show that over 27,000 contractors owed about $3 billion in unpaid taxes …More
Demonstration Project Widening Seems Dead
The concept of expanding “demonstration project” authority-which in some agencies has allowed a de facto form of civil service reform …More
Schedule C Appointee Briefings Scheduled for March 2
Schedule C appointee briefings will take place March 2 in Washington D.C. providing an overview of executive branch priorities, offering …More
