Publications

The Partnership explored ways to enhance coordination, particularly in the emergency management community, through its “Collaboration in Times of Crisis” series. 

This annual report illustrates why government matters in times of calm, not just crisis, and how government’s impact on our everyday lives demands that we act to improve its effectiveness. This report also outlines how the Partnership, more than any organization outside government, is driving that sustained push to improve government and how our work is delivering results through a broad range of new activities.

Partnership President and CEO, Max Stier, testified before the House Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia about the Bush administration’s pay for performance policies.

Research suggests our government has a golden opportunity to attract talented, experienced workers to federal service, but that agencies must take action to more effectively appeal to this cohort.

This report integrates student survey results with the on-the-ground experience gained from the five Call to Serve pilot campuses and feedback from a faculty survey to develop a series of key findings. These findings inform the recommendations for federal agencies, universities and Congress.

Partnership President and CEO, Max Stier, submitted a statement of support for H.R. 2363, the bipartisan Generating Opportunity by Forgiving Educational Debt for Service Act (GOFEDS), introduced by Representative Tim Bishop (D-NY).

This report contains the results of an extensive series of interviews, which included most of the current Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCOs). While these leaders on the human capital front have some progress to report, they also highlight a number of critical concerns and issues that need to be addressed.

Over the next two years, our largest federal agencies project that they will hire nearly 193,000 new workers for “mission-critical” jobs. While there are other federal jobs that will be filled during this time, including those in clerical and support positions, the jobs listed in this report constitute the bulk of our federal government’s hiring needs.

Partnership President and CEO, Max Stier, delivered testimony at a joint House/Senate subcommittee hearing on GAO personnel reform. In the testimony he asserted that GAO is on the right track with its performance based and market sensitive approach to compensation.

Partnership President and CEO, Max Stier, testified before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Management, Investigations and Oversight regarding low employee morale at the Department of Homeland Security.