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Keeping Employees Engaged During Periods of Uncertainty
It’s not just about making workers happy or providing them with incentives.
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Contractor Settles Criminal Charges on Overpriced Food for Troops in Iraq
Kuwaiti-based Agility had been suspended following indictment.
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I’m a Former Federal Manager And I Voted For Trump
Here’s why I think he’s doing a good job.
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Ex-GSA Chief Explains Decision Not to Block Trump’s Hotel Arrangement
Denise Turner Roth cites need to avoid politics, though she favors divestment.
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White House Gives Ground on Ethics Waivers, Continues Questioning Legality
Budget director says Office of Government Ethics will get requested disclosures.
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New Ebook: Government's Catch 22 Performance Problem
The case for civil service reform has never been stronger.
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Effort to Save Agency from Budget Ax Draws Allegations of Wrongful Lobbying
Chemical Safety Board official allegedly circulated a flyer designed to preserve funding.
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'Personal Kanban:' A Life-Changing Time-Management System That Explodes the Myth of Multitasking
Only 3% of the population are "supertaskers" The rest of us just pretend to be.
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Departure of White House Communications Director Could Signal Wider Shakeup
Mike Dubke has resigned from his position.
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Trump's Travel Ban Is Headed for a Supreme Court Showdown
Will the justices, many of whom worked in the executive branch, hold the president’s words against him?
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Politics is Distracting American Workers and May Be Killing U.S. Productivity
There is a real, measurable cost to the drumbeat of disturbing news coming out of Washington.
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Weather Service Staff Shortages Have Led to Burnout Among Employees
Agency is working on ways to hire meteorologists faster after 2013 hiring freeze created a backlog.
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Agencies Largely Maintain Small-Business Contracting Scores
Women-owned businesses landed fewer awards than the previous year.
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Trump Budget Continues Homeland Security Move to St. Elizabeths
Despite some lawmaker criticism of cost overruns, HQ consolidation on track.
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Congress is Sending Mixed Messages on Defense Procurement
The landscape is littered with the remains of scores of previous reform efforts.
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Older Americans Are More Millennial Than Millennials
To understand both changes to the workforce and changing attitudes toward work, don’t watch young people. Watch their parents (and uncles, aunts, and grandparents).
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Boosting Job-Creating Foreign Investment in the U.S.
In 2014, 6.4 million Americans were employed by U.S. subsidiaries of foreign firms.
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Appointee Watch: Nominees for Personnel Management, Overseas Posts and More
A Treasury nominee withdraws from consideration.
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Trump Budget’s Blessing of Program Evidence Could Cut Two Ways
Program evaluation specialists welcome effort but some worry it could simply be used to justify cuts.
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