By Alyssa Rosenberg
Editor's note: The following story appears in the Sept. 15 issue of Government Executive Magazine, which focuses on the challenges facing C-title federal executives.
It seems as though Toni Dawsey is always sending someone somewhere. As assistant administrator for human capital management at NASA, she has transferred scientists among the agency's 10 facilities, rotated engineers through human resources offices and sent her staff off to training institutes, all with the ultimate goal of helping a small subset of NASA's workforce travel at least 35 million miles beyond her office, from Earth to Mars.
That distance might be unusually large, but across the federal government, chief human capital officers share the same challenges Dawsey faces in directing the evolution that will help the workforce meet the changing demands placed on agencies.
Full story: http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=38142&dcn=e_gvet
