Author Archive
Features
Conflicting Images
Facebook, MySpace and other social networking Web sites now host civil servants ranting and agencies recruiting—mixed messages abound.
News
Data brings out disparities in promotions, performance ratings
Release of personnel statistics can help uncover discrimination and show progress – or lack thereof – in establishing a diverse workforce.
Features
Hard Numbers
The Government Accountability Office’s Ronald Stroman exposes disparities in promotions and performance ratings.
Features
Indomitable Spirit
Resiliency helps people embrace change and overcome crisis. Can it be taught?
News And Analysis
Double the Money
The Thrift Savings Plan’s recent rapid growth is mostly due to new participants.
Pay & Benefits
Getting to the SES
Training and leadership programs can help employees get to the top of the civil service ladder.
Pay & Benefits
Model for Health Coverage
Democrats in the 2008 presidential campaign turn to the federal employee program as a health care solution.
Pay & Benefits
Still Pushing
Short-term disability benefits and electronic retirement records remain high priorities for OPM Director Linda Springer.
Features
Fight to The Finish
As the Bush administration winds down, tensions between careerists and political appointees heat up.
Oversight
Student aid chief took home $250,000 in bonuses
Theresa Shaw, whose Education Department office is under scrutiny for its oversight efforts, was covered by special performance-based pay system.
Pay & Benefits
Performance-Based Perils
Another federal organization that was supposed to be a model of personnel reform faces scrutiny.
Pay & Benefits
Darfur Divestment?
Members of Congress want to know if investments in the Thrift Savings Plan are helping to fund atrocities in Sudan.
Pay & Benefits
Move Around
One of the upsides of working for the federal government is that you can jump to a new agency and keep your benefits.
Pay & Benefits
Honey Pot
The Thrift Savings Plan has grown into a $200 billion-plus retirement behemoth, but its nearly 4 million participants might be surprised to learn how their money is managed.
Pay & Benefits
Paybanding Evolution
New regulations give IRS supervisors more and more flexibility to set pay, as long as it’s not according to the General Schedule.
Features
Building A Better Carrot
Pay for performance is on the rocks and agency budgets are tight, but dedicated managers still find ways to reward and recognize employees.
