Management

Employer of Choice

New workers have good things to say about federal employment.

Management Matters - Advice And Dissent

Employer of Choice

New workers have good things to say about federal employment.

Management

Contest Time?

Prize competitions are an old-new way that government is stoking innovation.

Management

It Ain’t Child’s Play

Assessing program performance is harder than one might think.

Management Matters - Advice And Dissent

It Ain’t Child’s Play

Assessing program performance is harder than one might think.

Management

The Tides of Time

Still waiting for the federal retirement crisis.

Oversight

Congress, administration gear up for final budget battle

Democrats must deal with the White House if they want to get spending bills signed into law.

Management

Say What?

Cut the bureaucratic blah-de-blah.

Management Matters - Advice And Dissent

Outside Job

Cut the bureaucratic blah-de-blah.

Oversight

Stimulating Bipartisanship

Economic worries have sent congressional Democrats and Republicans scrambling to the center to pass a stimulus package.

Management

Get Comfy in Coach

Federal managers can’t expect the first-class travel treatment their private sector brethren demand.

Oversight

Democrats likely to step up oversight efforts

Majority party on Capitol Hill looks to pick up where they left off in 2007: Using their subpoena power to probe the Bush administration's management of federal operations.

Management

Outside the Beltway

Federal Executive Boards are models for interagency collaboration.

Oversight

Senate in no hurry to confirm Bush nominees

Last year's confirmation rate for political appointees was the lowest in the Bush presidency.

Oversight

Capitol Hill forecast: Even less legislative agreement

End-of-session acrimony that marked 2007 appears likely to carry over in 2008.

News

A federal holiday poem

Observing what has been a holiday tradition at GovernmentExecutive.com since 1998, we present our annual ode to federal employees.

Management Matters - Advice And Dissent

The Benefits of Benefits

The extras are nice, but maybe federal agencies should focus on what really attracts talent.

Management

The Benefits of Benefits

The extras are nice, but maybe federal agencies should focus on what really attracts talent.

Management Matters - Advice And Dissent

Gen X Execs

The next generation of federal executives has begun its ascent.

Intelligence File

Scandal Politics

Are lawmakers better at dishing out accountability than taking it?