Management

Interagency Competition Seeks to Thwart Opioid Trafficking Through the Mail

Four agencies team up to offer $1.55 million in prize money for new tools and technology to solve long-running problem.

Management

Agencies In the Dark About Performance of Their Grants, Survey Shows

Funding uncertainty, administrative burden on recipients continue as challenges.

Management

Lawmakers From Both Parties Seek to Revive Agency Labor-Management Councils

The Trump administration’s decision to dissolve groups designed for collaboration between unions and agency leadership drew outcry in 2017.

Management

How the GS System Fails Federal Workers and Everyone Else

If government could start with a clean page to plan a new pay system, it would never consider the General Schedule program model.

Management

Where Are the Stories About Government’s Vital Work?

Agencies need to do a better job of explaining what they do and why it matters.

Management

Analysis: The Emergency Declaration Should Not Be Resolved in Court

The constitutional conflict between Congress and President Trump over his emergency declaration has potential to undermine centuries of checks and balances between the two branches of government.

Management

Shutdown Hampered Watchdogs’ Latest Report on Afghanistan War

The U.S. spends about $3 billion monthly on Operation Freedom Sentinel.

Management

Stop Inspiring Your Team to Underperform

A lot of well-intentioned leaders set the bar too low for their staff.

Management

Workism Is Making Americans Miserable

For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising identity, transcendence, and community, but failing to deliver.

Management

The President’s Oddly Specific Lies About How He’s Managing Government

Trump has laid claim to issuing orders and taking actions that never occurred.

Management

The Budget Outlook Is Even Worse Than the Official Projections

The growing debt would be less of a concern if there was a viable plan to stop overspending, but this isn't the case.

Management

Analysis: Blame Congress for the National Emergency

Long ago, it could have required the president to meet certain requirements prior to unlocking this broad authority.

Management

FBI Scientist’s Statements Linked Defendants to Crimes, Even When His Lab Results Didn’t

Court records and FBI Lab files show statements by prosecutors or Richard Vorder Bruegge, the most prominent member of the Forensic Audio, Video and Image Analysis Unit, veered from his original conclusions in at least three cases.

Management

Federal Executive Pay is Inadequate

When school superintendents are paid significantly more than government’s leaders, something is wrong.

Management

Unions, Trump Administration Prepare to Face Off in Court Again Over Workforce Executive Orders

Oral arguments in the White House’s appeal of a decision blocking the measures are slated for April.

Management

How Leaders Rise From Small Groups

New research indicates how leaders arise from small groups of people over time.

Management

Forest Service Advised to Improve Reporting on Sexual Harassment

IG finds progress in workplace protections, but managers with prior histories won promotions.

Management

How the Government Could Successfully Leverage Its Buying Power

The UK offers some insight for achieving this decades-long quest.

Management

Shutdown Thwarted Public Input on Agency Rules

Lawmakers, citing public health and environmental impact, want OMB to extend the rulemaking comment period.

Management

You Don’t Need Leadership Training to Lead

An interview with retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal on the nature of leadership.