GovExec.com The Management Agenda - September 6, 2004
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September 7, 2004
* OPM retools management awards program
* Poll finds government falling in public's esteem
* More mid-career government jobs going to private sector workers
* Cabinet changes expected if Bush is re-elected
* No timeline set for selecting new civil service subcommittee chief
* Agencies urged to develop teleworker corps for emergency situations
* OPM's James rallies GOP troops
* This week's column: Management Matters
* Quote of the week
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1. OPM retools management awards program
By Amelia Gruber
The Office of Personnel Management has revamped a prestigious management awards
program to try to ensure that top honors go to agencies excelling at President Bush's
government reform goals.
OPM has modified the award categories and judging criteria in an effort to better
align the 2004 President's Quality Awards to the five areas of the Bush
administration's management agenda: personnel reform, competitive sourcing, financial
management, electronic government and performance budgeting.
This year, the personnel agency will hand out awards in three categories, and will not
allow agencies to compete unless they achieve passable grades on the White House's
quarterly management scorecard.
Full story: { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0804/083104a1.htm }
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0804/083104a1.htm
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2. Poll finds government falling in public's esteem
By Amelia Gruber
The public views the federal government less favorably this year than last, Gallup
poll results published last week indicate.
Slightly more than a third of respondents to an early August survey by The Gallup
Organization expressed a "positive" or "somewhat positive" view of the government.
This represents a drop of seven percentage points from a year ago, when 41 percent of
Americans surveyed said they looked favorably upon the government.
For this year's poll, conducted from Aug. 9 to Aug. 11, Gallup asked a random sampling
of 518 adults to rate their opinion of 25 industries, including the government, in one
of five categories ranging from "very positive" to "very negative." The survey has a
margin of error of up to five percentage points.
Full story: { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0804/083104a2.htm }
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0804/083104a2.htm
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3. More mid-career government jobs going to private sector workers
By Shawn Zeller
The government filled a greater percentage of mid-career jobs with private sector
applicants in 2003, but the number of job notices advertised to all comers declined,
according to a new survey by the Partnership for Public Service.
The Partnership, a Washington nonprofit group working to encourage more Americans to
consider federal employment, found that government agencies filled 15.3 percent of
positions from GS-12 to GS-15 with outside hires. The total has risen each year since
the organization first conducted its mid-career hiring survey in 2000, when only 10.5
percent of the GS-12 to GS-15 positions were filled from the outside.
During the same time period, though, the number of jobs opened to outside applicants
declined from 49 percent to 43 percent.
Full story: { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090104sz1.htm }
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4. Cabinet changes expected if Bush is re-elected
By Alexis Simendinger, National Journal
Donald
Rumsfeld is likely to stay as Defense secretary in a second Bush
term if he wants to. Attorney General John Ashcroft would
probably go, and RNC Chairman (and former Montana Gov.) Marc
Racicot is a leading candidate to succeed him. Treasury
Secretary John Snow absolutely would stay. Colin Powell is
departing State -- no news here -- but there is no single
leading replacement candidate yet, should President Bush get the
chance to name one. Longtime Bush friend Donald Evans, head of
the Commerce Department and viewed by the president as a top
spokesman for his economic programs, seems ready to leave
Washington; his wife has already moved back to Texas.
Those are the headlines
wheedled out of well-informed White House, congressional,
administration, and private-sector sources gathered for Bush's
convention week in New York.
"I don't know what the
turnover will be in the second term," Evans told reporters
Wednesday. "People love serving the country," he said, "and love
serving this president." Evans conceded, "Of course there is"
burnout after four tumultuous years, "but the people who know
the president best love him the most."
Full story: { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090204nj1.htm }
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090204nj1.htm
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5. No timeline set for selecting new civil service subcommittee chief
By David McGlinchey
No timeline has been established to replace Rep. Jo Ann Davis, R-Va., as the
chairwoman of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency
Organization, a senior committee member said Thursday.
Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., the subcommittee's vice chairman, said there is no firm
deadline to replace Davis, who left last month to take a seat on the House Select
Committee on Intelligence. Several congressional staff members previously said that
Rep. Ed Schrock, R-Va., was a favorite to succeed Davis. Schrock, however, announced
Monday that he would not run for reelection in his southeastern Virginia district
after a Washington-based Web site alleged that he is secretly homosexual.
Schrock, a former Navy officer, is a prominent supporter of a constitutional amendment
that would ban gay marriage, and opposes the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in the
military. Schrock has not discussed the allegations beyond saying that he will not
seek another term in Congress.
Full story: { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090204d1.htm }
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6. Agencies urged to develop teleworker corps for emergency situations
By Daniel Pulliam
The Office of Personnel Management released updated emergency guides last month,
emphasizing the need for agencies to have plans for employees to work from home during
emergencies. OPM also released guides for the families of federal employees and
managers.
The udpated emergency preparedness guides from OPM stress the need for agencies to
have plans that allow "the business of government to continue during emergency
situations." The guides stress that telework is an effective method that would allow
employees not selected to go to the Designated Continuity of Operations facilities
during an emergency to continue their work.
Agencies are supposed to develop a cadre of teleworkers who will learn to work
off-site electronically and supervisors who can manage employees remotely. Eliminating
paper and automating reports whenever possible will help employees to experience
functioning in a virtual office.
Full story: { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090104dp1.htm }
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090104dp1.htm
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7. OPM's James rallies GOP troops
By Brian Friel, National Journal
Office of Personnel Management Director Kay Coles James is in New York this week to
help rally the Republican Party faithful to get George Bush reelected.
James spoke Monday to the Minnesota delegation at a breakfast meeting at the Marriott
East Side hotel in Manhattan. "Serving this president is no joke," James told the
swing state delegation, reminding them that he is the first president with an MBA and
is an avid baseball fan. "He likes to win, he likes to keep score and he demands
results."
It's common for political appointees in the executive branch to stump for their
bosses, though they have to perform such political work on their own time. James
appeared at the meeting with Education Secretary Rod Paige. Labor Secretary Elaine
Chao and Agriculture Secretary Anne Veneman are among the other Cabinet secretaries in
New York this week.
Full story: { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0804/083004b1.htm }
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0804/083004b1.htm
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9. This week's column: Management Matters
Lessons in Leadership
Terrorists' bombs tested an ambassador's fortitude, resolve and experience.
Full column: { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090104mm.htm}
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090104mm.htm
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10. Quote of the Week:
"We found an immense reservoir of good will toward government workers, which is
consistent across political parties."
-- Partnership for Public Service President Max Stier, arguing that though the public
may view the government { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0804/083104a2.htm }
less favorably in an election year, Americans still hold civil servants in high
esteem.
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