OPM Director Scott Kupor's civil service reform plans have thus far been a mix of some good, some bad and some ugly. There's a path forward for a future administration to still preserve the good, ...

"Because Congress intended for the Civil Service Reform Act to strip district courts of jurisdiction only if federal employees were otherwise able to receive adequate and independent review of their ...

Top management staff in the Federal Civil Service have been urged to adopt the new Performance Management System (PMS), a key component of ongoing reforms under the Federal Civil Service Strategy and ...

As I noted in my first installment, there’s a lot going on in the federal civil service world these days—that includes most of “what” the Trump Administration is trying to accomplish in that regard, ...

Garfield had been shot by Charles Guiteau, a man universally described in the press as “a disappointed office-seeker.” Translation: Guiteau expected a job in the new Garfield administration, and he ...

For a second year in a row, a contested effort to change the constitution to give state lawmakers more power over Louisiana’s civil service system is underway. Sen. Jay Morris, R-West Monroe, is again ...

By bringing these lessons together, and by restoring an institutional home for leadership development through a new School of ...