Publications

Partnership President and CEO, Max Stier, testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management on efforts to reform the Senior Executive Service (SES).

In this report, the Partnership for Public Service and Hay Group set out to understand what these leaders have in common that allow them to build climates of innovation and deliver results when others have stalled.

Partnership President and CEO Max Stier testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy on the federal government’s approach to civilian employee compensation.

As part of the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® analysis, based on the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) employee survey, the Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte set out to understand the relationship between telework, job satisfaction and commitment.

The Partnership for Public Service and IDEO spoke with innovators across the public, private and nonprofit sectors to understand the unique opportunities for and barriers to government innovation and identify best practices for promoting a culture of innovation in government.

What is our proper role in an effective government—as citizens, as taxpayers, as parents, as beneficiaries, and in all the other ways in which we depend on government and government depends on us? Can and should individuals, businesses and organizations do more to help government realize its full potential, and HOW? Can we move beyond complaining about bureaucratic red tape and mismanagement to suggesting and even delivering real solutions for reform?

In Keeping Talent: Strategies for Retaining Valued Federal Employees, the Partnership for Public Service, with Booz Allen Hamilton, examined what makes employees stay with an organization, what retention techniques and tools are currently available to federal human resources professionals and managers, and what they think are the most effective strategies.

In America Has Talent, a project made possible by Monster Government Solutions, the Partnership for Public Service found and highlighted a group of federal agencies that are making headway on key challenges related to recruiting and hiring for hard-to-fill positions and to attracting special groups.

Beneath the Surface: Understanding Attrition at Your Agency and Why It Matters, a report written by the Partnership and Booz Allen Hamilton, provides leaders and workforce planners with an approach for analyzing and understanding their attrition. The report allows them to understand not only who is leaving, but the reasons for their departure and helps them to develop strategies to retain those employees they most want to keep or prepare to transfer knowledge and replace those who inevitably will leave due to retirement.

The Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® rankings have shown that any agency can improve its employee satisfaction. Even top-ranked agencies can improve.