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IRS FORGES UNUSUAL AGREEMENT WITH INDUSTRY TO BENEFIT
TAXPAYERS
With the Free File project, the IRS has developed
an unusual agreement with private industry to offer the benefits of
electronic filing to those who might otherwise have fallen through the
cracks in the digital divide.
GOVERNMENT MANAGERS LOOK TO RIGHT TECHNOLOGY FOR
E-GOVERNMENT
As electronic government has moved apace under
the President’s Management Agenda in the last four years, managers
have discovered the power of using the right technology to build
e-government sites, especially those aimed at serving citizens.
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PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
TRANSFORMATION
It's not just
control, oversight and overhead. It's about standardizing processes,
linking projects to strategic goals, driving results, improving the
bottom line. Learn how to improve your organization by clicking
here to download "Strategically Transform Your Organization:
Execution for the Executive".
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ALTERNATE PAY SYSTEMS MUST ACCOMPANY MISSION
REDEFINITION
Agency leaders hoping to implement salary plans
that include performance raises and other private-sector practices
won’t be able to simply overlay those pay regimes over their
organizations, Comptroller General David Walker said during a recent
hearing held by the Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight
of Government Management.
TO COPE WITH CHANGE, FDIC BECOMES LAB FOR ALTERNATIVE PAY
SYSTEMS
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, faced
with a wildly fluctuating workforce and changing banking industry rules,
has worked through four iterations of its alternative personnel and pay
systems to meet the challenge of those changes. As the agency’s
employee population ballooned from 4,000 to 23,000, then shrank to 5,000
in the late 1980s and early 1990s, FDIC tried various ways to change its
performance management systems and combine full-time hires, contract
employees and returning retirees.
AU AWARD HONORS LEADERS WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE
Sheila M. Earle helped shepherd through policy changes on Capitol Hill
that cut the red tape families of servicemen and women sometimes
encountered when they wanted to go overseas for hospital visits with
soldiers injured in Iraq. Marvin E. Gunn Jr. oversees a $4 billion
budget that finances some of the government’s premier research
labs, and a staff that provides management support to the labs. For
their efforts, both leaders have been named winners of the American
University School of Public Affairs’ Roger W. Jones Award for
Executive Leadership.
TIMES OF CHANGE AND UPHEAVAL DEMAND 'AUTHENTIC'
LEADERSHIP
A new book from the Center for Creative
Leadership offers guidance and tools for managers who must lead
employees through institutional and cultural changes, which can upset
the way workers approach their jobs and define themselves.
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