Download or read book Employee Retention in the Federal Government written by Jeffrey Carroll Williamson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the worst financial crisis since the great depression, the United States has experienced three consecutive years of unemployment above 8%. The current economic situation has pushed the economy to the forefront of the 2012 Presidential election. At the heart this partisan economic debate is the issue regarding the size of the Federal Government. The objective of this thesis is not to debate the politics of how big the Federal Government should or should not be. I merely point to the current economic situation and the partisan debate because I believe they are masking a potential issue which will impact the efficiency and quality of the services provided by the Federal Government - the issue of employee retention. Specifically, this thesis focuses on the voluntary turnover of top performing talent. Regardless of one's beliefs regarding the size the Federal Government or what role it should play, it is hard to debate the need to employ talented, productive, and innovative leaders within the government. In this regard, the Federal Government is no different than any private business. As the world shrinks and technology rapidly changes how we live and work, the demands of managing a business or running a government have become increasingly complex. This thesis uses the United States Postal Service (USPS) as a case study to illustrate some of the employee retention challenges facing the Federal Government and how the agency has implemented policies and strategies to improve its ability to retain employees. During this difficult time in its history, it is increasingly important to attract and retain talented employees. The USPS is now facing financial uncertainty, a rapidly changing marketplace, and intense competition from the private sector for its top talent. This thesis will attempt to reconcile these and many other factors impacting turnover in the USPS and highlight what USPS is doing and recommend potential actions to improve employee retention.
Download or read book Public Service Retention Do Federal Employees Views of Their Contribution to Mission Relate to Turnover Intention written by Katherine O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Federal Government is attempting reforms and recruitment strategies to combat a two-part demographic challenge, the aging federal workforce and a more competitive market for younger employees. While many of these efforts focus on mimicking strategies from the private sector, a growing field of evidence in public management studies highlights the value of uniquely public sector principles that could help recruitment, retention, and performance. In particular, there is evidence from studies of state and local government organizations that employees’ sense of mission is linked to greater satisfaction and organizational commitment. However, this relationship has not been tested for the Federal Government population that has a wide range of sectors of public work. This study tested the promising findings about mission and its relationship to organizational commitment within the Federal Government and, for a narrower focus, the subset of Department of Defense civilian employees. To achieve this, this study uses the 2019 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, which is a workplace survey administered annually to federal workers. The results of this study indicate that federal employees who do not perceive how their work contributes to mission are more likely to intend to leave the Federal Government. Beyond mission, the results support evidence from other studies that employee engagement and fairness in pay are relevant factors for employee commitment. This study makes a notable link of the importance of mission to the Federal Government population that could be a useful tool for federal managers to retain committed employees, the bedrock for administering many other federal policies and programs.
Download or read book Work life Programs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maximizing Employee Retention Credits written by Stephen L Nelson Cpa and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employee retention credits represent a nearly secret subsidy the Federal government provides to businesses and non-profits in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Like the better known Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), employer retention credits provide huge financial support to employers struggling to work their way through the pandemic: $5,000 per employee in 2020 and up to $28,000 per employee in 2021. In Maximizing Employee Retention Credits, CPA and small business expert Stephen L. Nelson, explains how the employee retention credit works, how employers calculate and claim their refunds, and how employers can collect larger refunds by carefully following the rules and responding to Congress's incentives. The book explains, for example, how to qualify for the credits soon as possible--perhaps for the next payroll processed. The book explains how most small businesses--even those that don't currently qualify--can start a new trade or business and receive up to $100,000 from the Federal government. (This opportunity needs to be acted on quickly. That $100,000 incentive drops to $50,000 after September 30,2021 and goes to zero on January 1, 2022. Finally, the book also explains how to coordinate PPP forgiveness with employee retention credits to get full PPP forgiveness but in a way that doesn't cost a business owner or manager retention credit refunds.
Download or read book Politics Bureaucracy and Employee Retention written by Susannah Bruns Ali and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study begins with a simple idea; if one regards the work of government as fundamentally political, why do researchers so rarely explore how that political world impacts the lives of careerists and their career decisions? So much of the research on job choices is isolated to managerial and demographic variables inside of an organization. Understanding the impact of these internal elements such as pay, mission, and relationships with coworkers are in and of themselves important for managers in building retention plans. However, this approach ignores what the open systems literature makes so clear: organizations and their operations shape and are shaped by their environment, just as people shape and are shaped by their organizations. In the process, it also ignores all that we can learn from public administration and political science literatures on relationships between agencies/individuals and political actors including the White House and appointees, Congress, and interest groups. My approach to studying turnover intent is novel in incorporating both internal and external organizational factors into an integrative theoretical framework for studying turnover intent, in deriving and testing a baker's dozen of hypotheses derived from that framework, and by "testing" and informing those findings with interviews conducted with federal employees. My study is also unique in integrating three research approaches to explore turnover intent: archival research on agency political environments; statistical analysis using logistical regression techniques of questions culled from iterations of the Federal Viewpoint (FedView) Survey between 2006 and 2012 and that prior research has found affect turnover intent by employees; and focus group and semi-structured interviews with both careerists and political actors. My analytical focus was on four agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with different responsibilities, task environments, and histories: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). My comparative agency approach is also uncommon in the literature on turnover intent, as is my focus on the perceptions of high-level career civil servants (GS 13-15). My analysis offered mixed support for the findings of prior research on turnover intent, as well as support for incorporating both internal and external factors in future research. I find that internal organizational factors partially explain decisions to change jobs. However, I also find substantive and statistically significant differences in turnover intent across the four agencies related to the stability-turbulence factors in their political environments. I also find that turnover intent needs to be explored in a more nuanced way than in prior research which treats it as a decision to stay in or leave the federal government. Specifically, it needs to be disaggregated into preferred future jobs--namely, to stay in one's job, leave the federal government entirely, or change jobs within the federal government but not leave it. In addition, the decision to leave government appears to be driven by different factors than the decision to move to other jobs within the federal government. My findings also suggest that predispositions toward turnover intent vary over time, thus calling into question static measures of variables in favor of ascertaining their cumulative effects over time or the conjuncture of different variables at different points of time. I conclude by assessing the implications of my findings for practice, future research, and theory building on turnover intent. Most significantly, the finding of environmental differences across agencies and the likelihood that they affect turnover intent directly and indirectly through their impacts on internal organizational variables begs further research. Needed are studies that test and further refine our understanding of the relationships I posit in my integrative framework, with a special focus on identifying the precise causal mechanisms involved. I offer a range of strategies for doing so that involve both quantitative and qualitative analyses, individually or jointly, and that stress the need to disaggregate turnover intent rather than treat it as solely a decision to stay in or leave the federal government. In terms of practice, I discuss the implications of the findings for future human resource management strategies, as well for the need they identify to reframe in more useful ways the "quiet crisis" arguments that have occurred since the first Volcker Commission report in the late 1980s.
Download or read book Grade Retention Benefits for Certain Federal Employees written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Compensation and Employee Benefits and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Power of Federal Employee Engagement written by United States. Merit Systems Protection Board and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leading by Example written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effectiveness of Federal Employee Incentive Programs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Changing Federal Workplace written by United States. Merit Systems Protection Board and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1998 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Federal employees' perceptions of workplace changes, following budget cuts associated with downsizing. Summarizes the responses of 9,710 employees within the framework of a survey conducted in the Spring of 1996.
Download or read book A Government of Strangers written by Hugh Heclo and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do political appointees try to gain control of the Washington bureaucracy? How do high-ranking career bureaucrats try to ensure administrative continuity? The answers are sought in this analysis of the relations between appointees and bureaucrats that uses the participants' own words to describe the imperatives they face and the strategies they adopt. Shifting attention away form the well-publicized actions of the President, High Heclo reveals the little-known everyday problems of executive leadership faced by hundreds of appointees throughout the executive branch. But he also makes clear why bureaucrats must deal cautiously with political appointees and with a civil service system that offers few protections for broad-based careers of professional public service. The author contends that even as political leadership has become increasingly bureaucratized, the bureaucracy has become more politicized. Political executives—usually ill-prepared to deal effectively with the bureaucracy—often fail to recognize that the real power of the bureaucracy is not its capacity for disobedience or sabotage but its power to withhold services. Statecraft for political executives consists of getting the changes they want without losing the bureaucratic services they need. Heclo argues further that political executives, government careerists, and the public as well are poorly served by present arrangements for top-level government personnel. In his view, the deficiencies in executive politics will grow worse in the future. Thus he proposes changes that would institute more competent management of presidential appointments, reorganize the administration of the civil service personnel system, and create a new Federal Service of public managers.
Download or read book From Candidates to Change Makers written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Esprit de Corps written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Power of Federal Employee Engagement written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report emphasizes the role that employee engagement plays in improving Federal agency outcomes. A focus on strategies to further engage the Federal work force is critical as agencies attempt to improve their operations within budget constraints, and as they face increasing numbers of retirement-eligible employees in a labor market where there is intense competition for top talent. This report examines what engages Federal employees -- that is, what contributes to a heightened connection between Federal employees and their work or their organization. It explores the extent that different groups of employees are engaged and, more importantly, discusses how employee engagement relates to improved Federal agency outcomes. Illustrations.
Download or read book Catching Up written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catching up : benefits that will help recruit and retain federal employees : hearing before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, April 29, 2008.
Download or read book Working for America written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Hiring and Firing Government Employees written by Stewart Liff and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only does government bureaucracy often make hiring a cumbersome, slow-moving process, but poor performers enjoy more protection from losing their jobs than their counterparts outside of government. With over thirty years’ experience as a federal government employee, insider Stewart Liff offers a solution to the government talent shortage--enabling government managers to cut through the red tape and take advantage of the best government employees out there. The Complete Guide to Hiring and Firing Government Employees also teaches readers the equally important skills of efficiently documenting and dealing with those who don't make the cut to ensure your team starts and stays strong. You’ll discover: how to take an anticipatory approach to recruiting; how to decide who to target, and where and how to advertise for open positions; how to screen and interview candidates; how to counsel a poor-performing employee; how to use progressive discipline; how to document a case and write a charge; how to develop internal political support; and much more. Bringing the best new people on board and weeding out the worst are both the most important and the most difficult tasks faced by any employer. For federal managers, the challenge is even greater. Filled with tried-and-true strategies, this step-by-step guide will equip you to continuously uphold, strengthen, and even grow an entire department of high achievers.
