Download or read book Reforming Federal Hiring written by United States. Merit Systems Protection Board and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Hiring written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed federal hiring procedures, focusing on whether: (1) those procedures are working; and (2) hiring reform efforts address the needs of agencies and applicants. GAO found that: (1) the Department of Agriculture initiated a demonstration project to test the feasibility of providing managers more selection flexibility, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) automated various hiring procedures, and the National Performance Review (NPR) recommended reforms to streamline the federal hiring process; (2) recent hires surveyed said they had no problem with the application process, but many felt that they waited an unreasonably long time to receive a job offer; (3) many veterans were not satisfied with the preference procedures and often did not receive enhanced employment consideration; (4) federal referral procedures allowed agencies to fill vacancies with qualified people in a timely manner, while selection procedures often did not; (5) veterans' preference procedures and the Rule of Three adversely affected timely hiring and candidate quality; (6) shortcomings with the federal hiring process increased the time needed to hire candidates and impeded agency operations; and (7) although current reform initiatives could make the hiring process more efficient, they do not balance managers' flexibility in selecting the best candidates and the legal requirement to give hiring preference to veterans.
Download or read book The Federal Hiring Process Parts I and II 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 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Hiring from the Welfare Rolls written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jobs Jobs Jobs written by United States Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jobs, jobs, jobs: transforming federal hiring : 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 Eleventh Congress, second session, May 19, 2010.
Download or read book Jobs Jobs Jobs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Part time and Other Federal Employment written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil Disservice written by Fred Mills and published by . This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture trumps everything. That's the central theme of Civil Disservice, an impassioned call for genuine reform and renewal of the U.S. federal civil service. In this acerbic, fast-paced, and irreverent polemic, long-time government consultant Fred Mills offers a unique perspective on federal employment culture, gleaned from years of ground-level experience working with dozens of federal agencies and organizations. Mills argues that much of the dysfunction of our national government today has its roots in this culture in the norms, behaviors, incentives, and expectations that have come to define federal civil service. Mills goes on to deliver a pointed critique of civil service reform efforts to date, arguing that virtually none of these initiatives has recognized or addressed the underlying sources of the government's human resources management challenges. Instead, most attempts at reform over the past several decades have been little more than cosmetic exercises, focused overwhelmingly on tweaking the mechanics of federal HR. Predictably, these efforts have foundered, falling far short of expectations and in the end contributing nothing of lasting value to the quest for improved government performance. Civil Disservice challenges the next generation of federal sector reformers to dig deeper, to think harder, and to acknowledge and confront outdated assumptions about what it means to be a civil servant. Mills offers a vision of a future federal workforce designed to deliver results to the American people: a more responsive, flexible, and capable workforce, with an employment culture strikingly different from today's. Given the prospect of massive generational turnover during the coming decade, now is the ideal time for fresh thinking and unconventional ideas about reforming and renewing the federal civil service. Provocative, insightful, and refreshingly direct, Civil Disservice makes a powerful case for a new way forward.
Download or read book The federal hiring process parts I and II 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 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reforming and Consolidating Federal Job Training Programs written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reforming and Consolidating Federal Job Training Programs: Hearing Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session on Examining Proposals to Reform and Consolidate Federal Job Training Programs; September 28, 1994 The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:00 a.m., in room SD - 430, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator Edward M. Kennedy (chairman of the committee) presiding. Present: Senators Kennedy, Pell, Simon, and Kassebaum. Opening Statement of Senator Kennedy The Chairman. We will come to order. Today's hearing is a continuation of our bipartisan effort to consolidate, reform, and revitalize Federally-funded job training programs. In his State of the Union Address this year, President Clinton called on Congress to improve all aspects of Federal work force development policy. In this session of the Congress, we have responded by enacting new education and job training measures for young people, such as the School to Work Opportunities Act, Goals 2000, and the Educate America Act. We have also made significant progress in responding to President Clinton's challenge to streamline today's patchwork of job training programs and make them a source of skills for people who lose their jobs. For the past 6 months, we have been working to develop legislation to make job training more responsive to the needs of job seekers, workers, and businesses. We have made substantial progress and reached agreement on many aspects of a comprehensive reform bill. Compared to other major industrial nations, the United States does not have a coherent labor market policy to help workers and firms adjust to structural changes in our economy. The basic building blocks of our current job training system were established during the New Deal, the New Frontier, and Great Society years. The challenge then was to help hard-to-serve groups enter the labor force. As we head into the 21st century, we must respond to a new set of problems. As a result of increased international competition, technological change and defense downsizing, many workers already in the labor force need to be retrained to have their skills improved, often several times over the course of their careers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Civil Service Reform in the States written by J. Edward Kellough and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil Service Reform in the States examines the critical importance of civil service systems in modern government and popular efforts to reform those systems. The book provides an up-to-date analysis and assessment of public personnel reforms undertaken by various state governments since 1990 and the extent to which these reforms have been implemented or resisted. With chapters written by nationally recognized experts on civil service and civil service reform, this book will appeal to public policy makers, practitioners, and students alike.
Download or read book The Effects of Reforming a Federal Employment Agency on Labor Demand written by Kornelius Kraft and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Choices in Reforming Public Service Employment written by C. Dell'Aringa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-09-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many industrialized countries have had to face the same political and economic pressures in reforming their public sectors there have been different reactions and a diversity of solutions to the emerging problems. This book examines the most significant initiatives targeted towards the restructuring of public sector employment relations in countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The contributors focus on national and local governments, and health, education and social services. The first section provides an up-to-date analysis of six European countries. The second part considers the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Japan.
Download or read book Reforming and Consolidating Federal Job Training Programs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Download or read book American Public Service written by James S. Bowman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the effects of radical change on public personnel systems is critically important both now and in the future to all those interested in the quality of American democracy. Civil service reform is occurring at all levels of government both in the United States and abroad. American Public Service: Radical Reform and the Merit System is a collection of papers that examine the innovations, strategies, and issues found in the contemporary civil service reform debate. Offering diverse perspectives from expert contributors, this book presents matters concerning radical reform and the merit system at the federal, state, and local levels of government. This volume offers fresh insight into the effects of merit system changes on employees. Divided into four sections, this book... · Examines a portrait of contemporary reforms from across the country and concepts to interpret those data · Addresses whether the relaxation of civil service protections against partisan intrusion will result in corruption · Provides examples of ongoing changes and analyzes survey data from state managers · Discusses a variety of key issues, such as the impact on racial inequality of moving from a protected class employment status to an unprotected at-will relationship The book provides a baseline of data on reforms as well as an account of their current promises and pitfalls. Covering topics ripped from the headlines, this text also identifies pressing issues and makes suggestions for the future. Offering a variety of methodological approaches, it is ideal for all those interested in effective governance.
Download or read book Federal Civilian Workforce Hiring Recruitment and Related Compensation Practices for the Twenty First Century written by Ginger Groeber and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. government employs around 2 million civilian personnel. The authority to hire and manage civilians is covered by a patchwork of human capital programs and rules that, over time, has failed to keep pace with the dynamics of a twenty-first century workforce. Federal human resources (HR) managers have complained that federal hiring procedures were rigid and complex. In an attempt to address such problems, the government has created an intricate system of demonstration projects, alternative personnel systems (APSs), and direct-hire authorities that have targeted select agencies and job types. While adding flexibility, these reforms have often resulted in multiple HR systems and greater complexity in managing federal personnel. One goal of the 2018 President's Management Agenda is to enable simple and strategic hiring practices, and the Department of Defense was tasked with examining best practices of federal demonstration projects and APSs. Toward this end, the authors identified best practices for recruiting, hiring, and compensation in 41 federal demonstration projects and APSs that began between January 2008 and May 2019. Informed by a literature review and discussions with civilian human resource professionals, the authors categorized best practices into three effectiveness groups: best, promising, and innovative. This review of program practices also revealed shortfalls in the evaluation process and implementation of these programs. The findings can inform the government's direction as it addresses the need for a talented and high-performing workforce supported by contemporary and effective human resource systems and practices.
Download or read book Part Time and Other Federal Employment written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part-time, intermittent, seasonal, or temporary federal workers generally receive the same basic pay rate as permanent, full-time workers, but their eligibility for fringe benefits depends on various factors controlled largely by the employing agency. At present, the fringe benefits being paid to workers employed less than full-time are inequitable and inconsistent. Congress is currently taking steps to expand part-time career employment and to make fringe benefits commensurate with actual hours worked. Administration ceilings on employment limit flexibility and may cause agencies to design jobs based on the number of spaces available, rather than in terms of the work to be done. A number of hidden benefit costs associated with federal employment, particularly unemployment compensation benefits, are not recognized or charged to the employing agency, possibly decreasing incentive for proper work load management and discouraging good personnel management practices.
