Publications

This report examines the federal government’s efforts to attract external talent to fill key management and senior specialist positions.

This report details survey work and focus groups conducted on Americans- views of federal government workers to understand how to best recruit and hire a talented and motivated federal workforce.

At a Congressional field hearing, the Partnership for Public Service’s expert on private sector human capital practices, Marsha Marsh, said the best way to help the federal government compete for and retain highly skilled and talented employees is to start at the top.

At a hearing of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization, Kevin Simpson, Executive Vice President of the Partnership for Public Service, recommended that efforts to improve the federal government’s ability to develop and manage a high-performing workforce are not disrupted by the changes in agency leadership that accompany an election year.

The Extreme Hiring Makeover project has shown that change is possible, but the makeover is just the beginning of the change process for the three pilot agencies. The case studies describe the progress made and lessons learned at each age.

This case study discusses how the Social Security Administration developed a recruitment strategy to hire over 9,000 persons over the last three years while also boosting workforce diversity.

In this initial report, the Partnership examines the challenges the government faces in attracting, developing, motivating and retaining critical biodefense talent by focusing on five federal agencies that contribute substantially to our biodefense.

The 2003 report provides a ranking of 28 cabinet departments and independent agencies and nearly 200 subagencies on overall employee satisfaction, as well as in ten work environment categories.

This testimony reports progress in implementing the five crosscutting Presidential Management Agenda initiatives.

This report, the second of the Volcker Commission, urges the President and the new Congress to undertake a sweeping reorganization of the federal government.