| Title |
Author(s) |
Date |
Summary |
Type |
Size |
| From Data to Decisions: The Power of Analytics |
Partnership |
11/30/2011 |
The Partnership for Public Service, in collaboration with IBM's Public Sector Business Analytics & Optimization practice, set out to study federal agencies' use of analytics and how it helped them achieve better program results. We focused on identifying leading practices that illustrate how data informs decisions and drives meaningful and positive program changes. In particular, we were interested to know how employing good data led to changes in how agencies think about their programs and how it led to programmatic insights that influenced their decisions.
Topics: Critical Skills and Mission Critical Occupations |
Research Reports and Surveys |
811k
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| Making Smart Cuts: Lessons from the 1990s Budget Front |
Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton |
09/27/2011 |
The Partnership for Public Service, with Booz Allen Hamilton, interviewed more than 30 current and former senior federal officials and government experts, on how federal agencies responded to past budget cuts. Their insights and experiences, presented here, are useful for leaders now facing similar challenges, and can assist agencies and members of Congress develop and implement effective strategies as they navigate the difficult path ahead.
Topics: Critical Skills and Mission Critical Occupations, Federal Contracting, Leadership, Strategic Human Capital Planning |
Research Reports and Surveys |
821k
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| The Partnership Fund for Program Integrity Innovation |
Partnership |
09/20/2011 |
The Partnership Fund for Program Integrity Innovation was enacted by Congress and the President to spur innovative approaches to strengthening program integrity, reducing improper payments, and improving in other program administration areas. OMB has implemented the Partnership Fund for Program Integrity Innovation through an inclusive and systematic approach to identifying, developing, reviewing, and selecting pilot projects for funding.
Topics: Attitudes Toward Government Service, Innovation |
Issue Briefs, White Papers and Snapshots |
2691k
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| Best Places to Launch a Career in the Federal Government Snapshot |
Partnership for Public Service |
09/08/2011 |
The Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte set out to understand what it takes to build a federal government workforce of the future in an era of career flexibility and job fluidity. How do professionals starting their federal careers feel about the agencies they serve and how well are those agencies managing their new class of public servants? This Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® snapshot analysis is based on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) 2010 employee survey.
Topics: Attitudes Toward Government Service, College Students and Entry-Level Careers, Compensation, Benefits and Student Loan Repayment, Retirees and Encore Careers |
Issue Briefs, White Papers and Snapshots |
202k
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| Securing the Future: Management Lessons of 9/11 |
Partnership for Public Service |
08/29/2011 |
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush supported and Congress approved two of the most significant government reorganizations in decades—the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
Topics: Attitudes Toward Government Service, Leadership, Recruiting and Hiring, Training and Development, Innovation |
Research Reports and Surveys |
738k
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| Best Places to Work Snapshot: What Drives Innovation in Government |
Partnership for Public Service |
08/10/2011 |
The Partnership and Hay Group found a strong disconnect between the desire of federal employees to innovate and the degree to which innovation is encouraged in their workplaces. Six workplace conditions have a high effect on innovation and federal leaders can improve innovation within their agencies by creating an environment in which each of these conditions thrives.
Topics: Innovation |
Issue Briefs, White Papers and Snapshots |
215k
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| Preparing the People Pipeline: A Federal Succession Planning Primer |
Partnership |
06/07/2011 |
The Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton set out to explore how extensively agencies are planning, with a particular examination of an at- risk occupational area that ironically has responsibility for succession planning for the whole government: the federal HR workforce. We also set out to better understand the barriers to effective succession planning and to outline simple steps that will help federal managers get started today.
Topics: Recruiting and Hiring, Innovation |
Research Reports and Surveys |
1247k
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| Best Places To Work Snapshot: Workplace Differences Among Men and Women |
Partnership |
05/25/2011 |
As part of our Best Places to Work in the Federal Government? analysis, based on the Office of Personnel Management?s (OPM) 2010 employee survey, the Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte found that women are slightly less satisfied than men in nine out of 10 workplace categories, and slightly more satisfied in only one category (skills/mission match). Today, women are half the labor market and fill a growing number of management and professional jobs. Managing the workforce of tomorrow will require leaders to tap the potential of all employees, men and women.
Topics: Diversity |
Issue Briefs, White Papers and Snapshots |
227k
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| A Critical Role at a Critical Time: A Survey of Performance Improvement Officers |
Partnership and Grant Thornton LLP |
04/13/2011 |
The Partnership for Public Service and Grant Thornton LLP surveyed federal PIOs or their designees at the largest federal agencies. The survey shows how PIOs see their roles and responsibilities. It also gauges their progress in establishing performance cultures and reveals the problems and frustrations PIOs face as they drive change in their agencies.
Topics: Performance Management |
Research Reports and Surveys |
661k
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| Strengthening the Senior Executive Service: A Review of Challenges Facing the Government’s Leaders |
Partnership for Public Service |
03/29/2011 |
Max Stier's testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management on efforts to reform the Senior Executive Service (SES).
Topics: Compensation, Benefits and Student Loan Repayment, Diversity, Leadership, Performance Management, Strategic Human Capital Planning, Training and Development |
Congressional Testimonies |
376k
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