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Best Places For Teamwork In Government

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With shrinking budgets and job freezes, teamwork among federal employees is more critical than ever to ensure the delivery of quality services to the American people.

The good news is that teamwork received the second highest score of the 10 workplace categories included the 2012 Partnership for Public Service’s “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government” rankings. Based on the views of nearly 700,000 federal employees, teamwork was given a score of 64.4 on a scale of 100.
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 /  Published December 21, 2012 at 9:00 AM

Best Places For Work-Life Balance In Government

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The federal government has embraced the importance of the health and well-being of its 2.1 million employees, making the workplace a saner place and providing a work/life balance every day.

In this year’s Partnership for Public Service survey on the “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government,” Intelligence Community agencies scored as the leading group among the big agencies for providing a good working and life environment, followed by NASA.
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 /  Published December 20, 2012 at 10:10 AM

Best Places For Strategic Management In Government

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The federal government is falling short in the eyes of its employees when it comes to strategic management, the ability to hire people with the right skills and come up with plans to achieve critical goals.

The 2012 “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government” survey produced by the Partnership for Public Service found that on a scale of 100, employees government-wide gave agencies a rating of just 54.7 for strategic management, down from 56.8 in 2011. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 19, 2012 at 7:00 AM

Best Places For Pay In Government

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With pay frozen, job openings left unfilled and fewer contracts awarded, it’s no surprise the 2012 employee satisfaction survey reflects lagging morale among federal workers.

“In terms of job satisfaction, federal workers don’t have the resources to do their jobs as well for the public,” said John Palguta, the Partnership’s vice president for policy.
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 /  Published December 18, 2012 at 10:00 AM

Best Places For Connecting Skills To Mission In Government

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A sizable majority of federal employees believe they have the skills to do their jobs and fulfill their agency missions, according to the 2012 “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government” report released by the Partnership for Public Service.

Among 10 workplace categories that drive employee satisfaction working for government, employees government-wide gave the match between their skills and mission the highest rating, with a score of 77.3 on a scale of 100. This was a slight drop from 2011 when the score was 78.6.
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 /  Published December 17, 2012 at 10:00 AM

Best Places For Leadership In Government

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Top-notch leadership is a critical component not only for achieving higher performance in government, but also for driving employee satisfaction. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM

Best Places To Work In Government 2012

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The “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government” report released today highlights NASA, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Surface Transportation Board among agencies with top rankings, but it also found growing discontent among public servants. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 13, 2012 at 10:00 AM

Spot Market Pricing, New Services Fuel Amazon GovCloud Growth

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More than 300 government agencies and 1,500 education institutions are now using Amazon Web Services’ cloud computing platforms, according to AWS Global Public Sector Vice President Teresa Carlson, speaking at a government customer and partner meeting in Washington, DC, Wednesday. AWS also announced several enhanced services for its GovCloud, a government-only cloud computing center.

The new customer milestones reflect not only the growing flexibility of service and pricing options for public sector customers, but also the growing maturity of intermediaries and brokers who are making it easier for government agencies to buy – and for Amazon to sell – an expanding assortment of on-demand computing services. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 10, 2012 at 4:45 PM

Rethinking Six Policy Drivers To Improve America’s Competitiveness

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A new assessment of the American workforce contends that the nation’s prolonged unemployment problems are an outgrowth of outdated national policies that if not addressed, will prolong a growing shortage of essential talent and skills needed to keep America competitive.

Written by Bill Eggers, author of the The Public Innovators’s Playbook and Government 2.0 and John Hagel, author of Out of the Box, the new report is aimed primarily at the nation’s continuing debate on how to jumpstart job growth in America. But it also has lessons for federal executives who must compete with the private sector for top talent admidst underlying forces that continue foster a “significant and growing mismatch between the country’s demand for taklent and its current supply.”

Eggers, who now directs research for Deloitte Services, and Hagel, who co-chairs the consulting firm’s Center for the Edge, make the case that while Americans are becoming increasingly educated, “America’s talent pool is not poised to adapt to the new demands” of today’s knowledge economy. “The skills that graduates acquire after four years of college will soon have an expected shelf life of only five years, meaning that skills learned in school can become outdated long before the student loans are paid off,” they note.

Meanwhile, “a new class of free agents is revolutionizing the traditional 9 to 5” employment environment of the 20th century. Eggers and Hagel argue that national policy makers need to focus on six key drivers that affect America’s talent pool, recommending:

  • Education nation needs to move beyond the traditional K-12 model to one of continuous learning
  • Occupation and employment regulation needs to rethought and even dismantled to lower the barriers to a wide variety of jobs
  • Immigration rules need to be revised to provide greater ease and incentives to attract the world’s talent
  • Foreign investment need to be reframed from national security to training American talent
  • Unemployment insurance policy needs to changed to create incentives for reskilling
  • Intellectual property laws need to reduce unproductive costs and be updated to be more agile, more proactive.
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 /  Published September 14, 2012 at 8:05 AM

Partnership For Public Service Spotlights Innovative Federal Agencies

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Innovation seems to be this decade’s buzzword. It’s what “synergy” was to the 1990s, but what does it really mean?

Put simply, innovation is the process of improving, adapting or creating a product, system or service. According to federal employees, some agencies do it better than others. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 26, 2012 at 2:00 PM
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