Is It Too Late for Comprehensive Civil Service Reform?

Government Executive: The government needs a measured approach to civil service reform, according to current and former top federal human resources executives, who argued a piecemeal approach would help sustain the progress already made and effect more realistic change.

Promoting lateral job changes moving employees across federal agencies, creating clearer hiring agendas and modifying the General Schedule would help recruiting and improve the workforce, panelists said Wednesday at Fedstival, a series of events in Washington, D.C., hosted by Government Executive Media Group. The ship for a large-scale personnel reform effort may have already sailed, they said.

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