Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Panel: Transition presents opportunities for civil service reforms

By Alyssa Rosenberg arosenberg@govexec.com
October 14, 2008

The upcoming presidential transition and the current economic crisis present major challenges, but they also provide an opportunity for much-needed reforms to the rules governing federal workers, panelists said during a forum on Tuesday.

Those changes could include strengthening performance management, creating a mechanism for senior executives to move around more and rebranding federal service for a new generation of employees, the panelists said. The discussion was sponsored by the Coalition for Effective Change, a nonpartisan group of current and retired federal employees and executives.

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