Publications

In this uncertain environment, many federal employees are facing the same challenge: do more with less and do it better. The Partnership and Deloitte’s Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® analysis found that the vast majority of federal workers want are looking for ways to perform their jobs better, but lack their leaders’ support.

The Partnership for Public Service and ASI developed a roadmap that serves as an introduction to the roles and challenges of Federal Chief Administrative Officers (CAOs).

With broad strategic oversight and high-level responsibilities, the Senior Executive Service (SES)—the federal government’s elite cadre of leaders—provide key insights into an agency’s workplace culture and the unique pressures of federal leadership. How do these senior executives view their jobs and workplaces? Do their opinions differ from other federal employees?

How satisfied are federal employees with their agency leadership? In the Partnership and Deloitte’s Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® analysis, federal leaders can find out their employees’s opinions of senior leadership and see whether their attitudes have changed from 2011 to 2012. The analysis also includes steps for improving employee job satisfaction and performance and the workplace environment.

The Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamiliton set out to learn how federal managers can use social media technologies more effectively to change how they carry out their work, fulfill their agency’s mission and broaden communication with the American public.

In the Partnership’s new issue brief, we surveyed, with assistance from the Office of Personnel Management, members of the PMF class of 2011 during their first two to five months on the job to better gauge their expectations for the program and how those met the fellows’ first impressions. The findings reveal some positive aspects of the program and some warning signals that deserve attention.

Charged with protecting the nation’s public health, it’s vital that the FDA meet its scientific staffing needs. This new report examines the agency’s progress in shoring up its key scientific workforce and includes recommendations for how the FDA can improve its recruitment, hiring and retention practices.

The Partnership for Public Service and the IBM Center for The Business of Government released, “From Data to Decisions II: Building an Analytics Culture.” This second report on using information to measure and improve performance examines what it really takes to build analytics into an agency’s decision-making processes and culture.

Partnership President and CEO, Max Stier, testified at Senator Akaka’s final federal workforce hearing before his retirement entitled “Investing in an Effective Federal Workforce”.

We launched the Partnership for Public Service in 2001 to improve our government’s effectiveness by revitalizing our federal workforce. We are exceptionally proud of the progress we have made in our first decade and we are emboldened to take on the challenges that lie ahead.