Strategic Alignment
Agency human capital strategy is aligned with
mission, goals, and organizational objectives
and integrated into its strategic plans, performance
plans, and budgets.
Workforce Planning
& Deployment
Agency is citizen-centered, delayered and mission-focused,
and leverages e-government and competitive sourcing.
Leadership &
Knowledge Management
Agency leaders and managers effectively manage
people, ensure continuity of leadership, and
sustain a learning environment that drives continuous
improvement in performance.
Results-Oriented
Performance Culture
Agency has a diverse, results-oriented, high
performance workforce, and has a performance
management system that effectively differentiates
between high and low performance, and links
individual/team/unit performance to organizational
goals and desired results.
Talent Development
& Management
Agency has closed most mission-critical skills,
knowledge, and competency gaps/deficiencies,
and has made meaningful progress toward closing
all.
Accountability
for Results
Agency human capital decisions are guided by
a data-driven results-oriented planning and
accountability system.
Homeland Security
Act
The legislation creating the Department of Homeland
Security allows its top officials wide latitude
to design a flexible compensation and human
resources management system.
Defense Reauthorization
Act
This legislation allows Defense managers to
throw out the half-century old General Schedule
classification system and replace it with a
new pay-for performance system. The Defense
Reauthorization Act also allows Defense officials
to rewrite the rule governing collective bargaining
with agency unions and hire skilled workers
more quickly.
Government Performance
Results Act
This statute requires every federal agency to
develop a long-term Strategic Plan and annual
Performance Plan to guide management and budgeting
of federal programs. GPRA also requires the
development and inclusion of outcome-oriented
performance measures for agency budget requests.
President's
Management Agenda
By far the most pressing of the management initiatives,
the President's Management Agenda (PMA) defines
five major performance management reforms for
federal agencies to implement-complete with
accountability report cards and standards for
success.
• Budget-Performance Integration
• Competitive Sourcing
• Improved Financial Management
• Expanded e-Government
• Strategic Management of Human Capital
