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The IBM Center is releasing an update to its 2009 The Operator’s Manual for the New Administration for the use of new executives in the federal government. This updated chapter on people reflects advances based on extensive practical research published by the Center since 2009 on changes, challenges, and opportunities surrounding the workplace, the nature of work, and the workforce charged with performing the activities of government.
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This book provides eight studies on the "state" of human capital in government today. Carol Chetkovich discusses the challenge of recruiting the best and the brightest to government. Hal G. Rainey describes how four federal agencies are using special...
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After explaining the role of human capital management and its inherent challenges, the book is divided into two parts, each presenting compelling case studies. The first part explores the workplace challenges. Here the challenge is that of building a...
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This book provides helpful advice to new political appointees on a variety of topics related to the challenge of managing in government. Topics include: key lessons learned from surveys of previous political appointees; common myths held by political...
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This book provides six in-depth studies of leaders who demonstrate a new style of leadership for the 21st century. W. Henry Lambright describes how Dr. Francis Collins is leading the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health. Norma Riccucci...
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This project describes the many human resource innovations that have taken place in the Internal Revenue Service over the past five years. Organizational human resource innovations include splitting the personnel function in IRS into three parts: the...
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This research project focuses on the untapped pool of knowledge of the Federal retiree community and will develop an innovative model and "best practices" that Federal agencies can use to reduce the Federal human capital crisis. Case studies to include...
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The report presents 50 recommendations for reforming human capital in the U.S. Agency for International Development. The recommendations were developed at a Forum hosted by the National Policy Association in October 2002 at the Belmont Conference Center...
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Will the federal government be able to recruit and retain employees with the qualities needed for leaders in the future? To help answer that question, the IBM Center for The Business of Government surveyed career and noncareer members of the federal...
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The IBM Endowment for The Business of Government supported a series of forums to examine the future of the civil service: (1) Two Federal Summit Conferences; (2) Thought Leaders Forum on -A New American Diplomacy: Requirements for the 21st Century, hosted...
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