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email Federal Housing Finance Agency Improves Its Employee Satisfaction Scores
It’s “important for all federal employees to be regularly reminded about the bigger impact they have,” said Director Mark Calabria.
Mark Calabria is coming up on his two-year anniversary as Federal Housing Finance Agency director, which coincides with improved and overwhelmingly positive scores on the Federal Employee Viewpoint survey for fiscal 2020.
President Trump nominated Calabria to lead the independent, regulatory agency, which has about 780 employees, after Mel Watt finished his five-year term. Calabria assumed office on April 9, 2019, making fiscal 2020 the first full fiscal year under his leadership. After being delayed twice due to the coronavirus pandemic, the annual survey was administered. The agency shared the 2020 results exclusively with
Biden’s management plan will address federal workforce recovery March 1 The Biden administration plans to establish a management strategy that rehabilitates a workforce that has been damaged, disrespected and demoralized for the last four years. (Tero Vesalainen/Getty Images) President Joe Biden’s upcoming management agenda will address strategies for revitalizing the federal workforce at large, Pam Coleman, Office of Management and Budget associate director for performance management, confirmed at a March. 1 GovExec New Agenda event. That agenda will aim to address the “full extent of the damage” done to the federal workforce by the Trump administration, according to Coleman, and work on rebuilding that workforce.
The battle for the future of the federal workforce February 23 Members of Congress are fundamentally divided on how best to improve the federal civil service. (bowie15/Getty Images) Both Democrats and Republicans agree that the federal government’s workforce management practices as they currently stand aren’t good enough to meet the needs of the American people. But as demonstrated at a Feb. 23 House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing, they have radically different ideas of how to fix things. Those two stances are well-exemplified in the policies advocated for by the most recent presidents from each party. During his four years in office, President Donald Trump placed his focus on making it easier to get rid of poor-performing federal employees and restructuring pay to better match private sector competition and performance metrics.
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email It’s ‘Back to the Future’ to Improve Agency Management Practices
Given the shift in workplace dynamics driven by the pandemic, creating a new bottom-up initiative with a focus on quality management may be what’s needed now.
Senior Fellow, IBM Center for the Business of Government
Columnist Fareed Zakaria, in a new book on lessons from the pandemic, observes that the endless debates over the size of government faded during the pandemic and “what seems to have mattered the most in this crisis was the
quality of government.”
But what does “quality government” look like? How can public leaders and employees know or show that their organizations are high quality? After all, what is quality? Can it be measured? Why does it matter?