Management
IRS Improves Its Performance During Tax Season Despite Staff and Budget Cuts
Agency is also diving into implementation of new tax law, GAO finds.
Management
Meet the Executive Bringing Digital Savvy to Health and Human Services
Shannon Sartin leads a team striving to make healthcare work better for Americans.
Management
Attorney General Acts on Promise to Hire More Immigration Judges
Sessions tells largest class of new judges to ignore resistance from “open borders” advocates.
Management
Hurricane Florence Could Be the Worst Storm to Ever Hit North of Florida
Since records began, only 10 major hurricanes have made landfall around the Carolinas. This one has the potential to blow them all out of the water.
Management
Trump Offered Gary Cohn Five Wildly Different Jobs In One Conversation
Trump offered Cohn jobs running defense and intelligence before landing on economics.
Management
It’s Possible (And Dangerous) To Be Over-Inclusive
Over-inclusion is a textbook case of good intentions paired with bad instincts.
Management
IRS' New Private Debt Collection Program Is Off to a Terrible Start, IG Says
Enforcement of the program is inefficient, creating higher tax burdens and weakening taxpayers' rights, auditors say.
Management
Multi-Agency Investigation Delivers $1M in Restitution for Wire Fraud Scheme
Tech industry exec and three companies plead guilty to defrauding three agencies to win small-business science grants.
Management
Why My Generation Isn’t Serving in Government
Blame everything from frustration with the hiring process to pay scales and cynical TV shows about American politics.
Management
EEOC Probes One of its Own Managers After Complaints of Coerced Sex
A manager in the agency’s Miami district office allegedly engaged in quid quo pro sex with employees.
Defense
White House Chaos is Having an Impact on the Ground in Syria, and Beyond
The power struggle at the top of the world’s greatest military power and largest economy has never been more visible than in recent days.
Management
How Senior Executives and Good Government Groups Would Like to Reshape the SES
Proposal stresses training, performance management and reducing the number of political appointees.
Management
Unions Remain Vigilant As Most Agencies Begin Rolling Back Workforce Executive Orders
Several agencies have restored official time and office space for union employees, but a court order’s full impact on labor-management negotiations remains to be seen.
Management
Consumer Bureau Highlights That It Has Taken Enforcement Actions Under Mulvaney
Report also touts a new focus on consumer-friendly innovation.
Management
A Tiny Hole in the Soyuz Spacecraft Could Be a Huge Headache for NASA
Quality control problems with the Soyuz will pile more pressure on the delayed efforts of Boeing and SpaceX to fly astronauts for NASA.
Management
Good Managers Learn to Lift People Up
There is a place for criticism, but it needs to be balanced with positive reinforcement.
Management
OMB Centralizes Agency Reporting of Grant Recipients
The goal is to ease the paperwork burden across government.
Management
Trump Renews Shutdown Threat as Congress Considers Spending Bills
Spending package with provisions on a 2019 pay raise is in conference negotiations between the House and Senate.
Management
Analysis: I Assessed a President's Fitness to Serve—But I Didn't Write an Op-Ed
When my colleague became worried about President Reagan, he took his concerns to the chief of staff—not a newspaper.
Management