Management

Choose Your Weapon

There are several ways to combat favoritism in the workplace.

Management

No Agency Left Behind

Accountability and results-driven management are here to stay.

News

OPM’s James rallies GOP troops

At convention in New York, civil service chief makes a get-out-the-vote pitch to swing-state delegates.

Management

Active Management

Few government handbooks actually describe, with verbs, what managers can do to improve their agencies' performance.

Management

Leadership Qualities

Which trait do you most admire in a leader?

Defense

For Boston’s federal workers, a quiet week

Calm prevails for 18,000 who had prepared for the worst with the Democratic convention in town.

Defense

Trained for mass casualties, emergency personnel encounter few problems

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention paid for extra hazardous materials and mass casualty training for Boston’s EMTs and paramedics in preparation for the convention.

Management

Be a Micromanager

Tell employees what you expect of them, monitor their performance, provide feedback and reward or admonish them.

Defense

Surveillance cameras key to convention security efforts

The cameras help law enforcement agencies keep an eye on things inside and outside the convention hall, but raise privacy concerns.

Defense

In Boston, security goes to the dogs

Dozens of federal, state, and local canines help sniff out potential danger during convention week.

Defense

Convention security effort wins positive reviews

Delegates impressed with speed, thoroughness of Secret Service/TSA screening efforts at checkpoints outside Boston's FleetCenter.

Defense

Security forces set up 'hard zone' at Democratic convention

Secret Service hosts a Multi-Agency Communications Center with more than 70 representatives of 40 government agencies and private firms.

Defense

Secret Service agent is man behind convention security curtain

Special Agent Scott Sheafe has spent 13 months in Boston overseeing security preparations for the first post-9/11 political convention.