Agencies are allowed to raise pay caps for their Senior Executive Service (SES) members if the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) certifies and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) concurs that their appraisal systems meet applicable criteria. This report examines selected agencies' policies and procedures for: (1) factoring organizational performance into SES appraisal decisions; (2) making meaningful distinctions in SES performance; and (3) building safeguards into SES systems. Also, this report examines OPM and OMB oversight in certifying the pay systems through their statutory roles. The auditor selected 6 agencies and analyzed the agencies' policies and FY 2007 aggregate SES appraisal data and OPM guidance. Illus.
To address the challenges that the nation faces, it will be important for fed. agencies to change their cultures and create the institutional capacity to become high-performing organizations. This includes recruiting and retaining a fed. workforce able to create, sustain, and thrive in organizations that are flatter, results-oriented, and externally focused. This testimony, based on a large body of completed work issued from Jan. 2001 through April 2008, focuses on: (1) challenges that fed. agencies have faced in recruiting and hiring talented employees; (2) progress in addressing these challenges; and (3) additional actions that are needed to strengthen recruiting and hiring efforts.
The decennial census produces data used to apportion congressional seats, redraw congressional districts, and help allocate billions of dollars in federal assistance. In March 2008, the 2010 Census was designated a high-risk area in part because of info. tech. (IT )shortcomings. The U.S. Census Bureau (CB) has since strengthened its risk management efforts and made other improvements. This testimony discusses the Bureau's readiness for 2010 and covers: (1) the delivery of key IT systems, (2) preliminary findings on the results of address canvassing and the lessons learned from that operation that can be applied to subsequent field operations, and (3) the CB's progress in improving its cost estimation abilities. Charts and tables.
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