federal workers

White House Launches Ethics Website

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The White House launched a new website today devoted to government ethics practices, fulfilling the President’s campaign promise to create a single website for searches related to executive branch ethics and influence data.

The new website is part of the administration’s Data.gov website, and can be found at Explore.data.gov/ethics. The site provides the public the ability to enter a name and search government data, to see available records on individuals in government-“including campaign finance, lobbying, and White House visitor records,” according to the site. Keep reading →

 /  Published March 8, 2012 at 12:06 PM

How DHS Plan Has Potential To Transform Federal HR Systems

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Recently, the Department of Homeland Security reached a milestone in the effort to implement functionally-oriented information technology portfolios that support the department’s mission and business functions: The completion of an architecture to manage our human resources systems, called the Human Capital Segment Architecture (HCSA).

It will be our model for conducting segment enterprise architectures for other mission and business functions going forward. HCSA promises to guide real and lasting transformation in our human capital organization. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM

USDA Harnesses New Web App To Track Tainted Food

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The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has launched a web-based system that identifies and keeps tainted meat, poultry and eggs out of the food chain.

Gone are paper reports and word-of-mouth alerts about unsafe and dangerous food detected by USDA’s food inspectors, whether its salmonella or sour milk that sends consumers to the hospital. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 21, 2012 at 9:30 AM

25 Questions Congress Should Consider Before Agency Reorganization

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Partnership for Public Service Presidnet and CEO Max Stier urged Congress on Wednesday to answer 25 key questions before moving ahead with proposals to reorganize federal agencies as part of efforts to save money and increase efficiency.

Wednesday’s hearing — “Why Reshuffling Government Agencies Won’t Solve the Federal Government’s Obesity Problem” — was scheduled to shed light on proposals to assess and reshuffle the size of our federal government. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 15, 2012 at 1:34 PM

Feds@Work: Efforts Lead To $1.2 Billion Ponzi Thief Conviction

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Taryn Guariglia, an unassuming but relentless Internal Revenue Service (IRS) special agent, led the complex investigation that resulted in the indictment, guilty plea and 50-year prison sentence of South Florida lawyer Scott Rothstein, the flamboyant mastermind of a Ponzi scheme that fleeced investors of an estimated $1.2 billion.

Within days after Rothstein fled to Morocco on a private jet in 2009 , just as his massive swindle was unraveling, Guariglia worked closely with prosecutors and a team of IRS and FBI agents to quickly amass the necessary evidence to charge Rothstein with racketeering, money laundering, and mail and wire fraud. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 14, 2012 at 2:00 PM

Romney Talks Up Innovation At Northern Virginia Technology Event

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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, speaking to nearly 1,000 technology executives in Northern Virginia earlier today, called on the federal government and the nation at large to re-embrace a national spirit of innovation, or risk seeing the decline of nation’s global economic and political stature.

“If we are to remain the strongest nation on Earth, we must remain the most innovative nation on Earth,” he said. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 10, 2012 at 12:30 PM

Government Recruiters Face Uphill Battle Attracting STEM Graduates

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Federal agencies looking to attract the next generation of technically-inclined leaders have their work cut out for them, but may also have a window of opportunity, according to new analysis of college students’ plans released this week by the Partnership for Public Service.

Based on a survey of 35,401 students from 599 colleges and universities across the nation, the Partnership found that just 6% of students intend to work in federal, state or local government–and the percentage was even lower among students majoring in technical areas. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 7, 2012 at 1:32 PM

Do Federal Managers Fail to Find the Good in ‘Bad’ Employees?

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Let’s face it. Not everyone you work with on every project is going to be a super star and it’s unreasonable to expect that you will get along perfectly with every member of your team.

So how should a Federal manager deal with under-performing or “dysfunctional” team members? Keep reading →

 /  Published February 6, 2012 at 12:00 PM

A Key Ingredient Behind Government Employee Satisfaction

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Measuring leadership — and identifying federal agencies that breed effective leaders–has rarely been a simple undertaking. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 20, 2012 at 2:54 PM

‘Social’ and ‘Networks’ — You Can’t Have One Without the Other

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Think about the last time you met a professional contact at a conference. Did you only talk about your most recent project at work, or did you delve into topics like your family or favorite television shows? My hunch is that you blended the personal and the professional as you built the initial rapport of the relationship.

Why do organizations expect their employees to interact on social networks — whether it’s Facebook or Twitter or an internal collaboration tool like Yammer — as if they are any different? Why do they force employees to focus only on work topics and fend off the family photos, recipes and recent celebrity buzz? Keep reading →

 /  Published January 20, 2012 at 9:00 AM
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