'Back-Door' Base Closures
Biden Talks Loss With Fallen Troops' Families
Neely Out at GSA
More USPS Buyouts
Gimme My Discount! Deals for Feds
Buyout Watch: Who's Offering What
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Springing for Training
July 15, 2006 Agencies find ways to promote learning without sacrificing time and money. No agency managers in their right mind would say they don't want to provide training for staff. After all, training ranks high as a driver of employee satisfaction, says John Palguta, vice president for policy at the Partnership for ...
Kicking In, Not Back
June 21, 2006 Federal employees are picking up the pace on one career path that makes managers cringe-retirement. According to the Office of Personnel Management's five-year projection, 18.8 percent of the full-time federal workforce, a hard number of 281,000 people, will hang it up between 2002 and 2006, and at a rate of ...
Kicking In, Not Back
June 15, 2006 Encouraging short-timers to keep their heads in the game. Federal employees are picking up the pace on one career path that makes managers cringe-retirement. According to the Office of Personnel Management's five-year projection, 18.8 percent of the full-time federal workforce, a hard number of 281,000 people, will hang it up ...
Go, Team, Go!
May 1, 2006 Revving up the staff isn't easy, but government managers have an edge, if they'll use it. Motivation, it seems, is about the soft stuff. Bosses, management experts and a mound of surveys agree that money alone won't bring out the best in employees. Instead, it's a mushy stew of good ...
Power Pencils
December 1, 2005 Chief financial officers shed yesterday's bean-counter image to become executive power players. When Linda Morrison Combs accepted the chief financial officer position at the Environmental Protection Agency in 2001, she strolled into the building on Pennsylvania Avenue with a curious goal: to make hers the most respected CFO operation in ...
