Management
Listen and Learn
Leaders must recognize that they, too, can learn by listening to employees.
Management
Agency hiring methods called ineffective
Price of poor assessment of candidates includes higher turnover, lost productivity and greater absenteeism.
News
Executives' association challenges conflict-of-interest interpretation
Office of Government Ethics limits work activities of executives who take positions on Senior Executives Association board.
Pay & Benefits
More workers would get locality pay under OPM proposal
About 15,000 employees in outlying areas around big cities could win eligibility for additional locality pay.
Defense
Defense fine-tunes new personnel system regulations
Union bargaining will be limited and civilian personnel rules will be more flexible.
Pay & Benefits
Private sector steps in to help agencies with hiring
Agency officials hope the hiring makeovers will yield significant benefits by the end of 2005.
Pay & Benefits
More mid-career government jobs going to private sector workers
But the number of jobs open to outside applicants dwindled in 2003, study finds.
News
Critics: Details about new Pentagon personnel system are scarce
Coalition of 35 unions accuse Defense of refusing to negotiate and not sharing information.
Pay & Benefits
Unions seek to force DHS to keep negotiating on personnel rules
Labor leaders lobby members of Congress to put pressure on Homeland Security officials to extend discussions.
Pay & Benefits
Senior executives fear new salary rules will roll back job protections
Group asks House leader to push for revision of regulations.
Pay & Benefits
Union fights decision to change work schedules for some CMS employees
After impasses panel rules in favor of management on 25 of 26 issues, AFGE files motion for reconsideration.
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