Keene: Bureaucratic meltdown floods news by design

Keene: Bureaucratic meltdown floods news by design

Often, the first thought someone has when they think of an iceberg is the frozen behemoth that sank the supposedly unsinkable Titanic. We are seeing this scenario play out with the Trump administration’s streamlining of the federal government. The iceberg is the federal bureaucracy comprising thousands of individuals hired into the executive branch to serve their fellow citizens.  Now, they are feeling the heat. For years, these individuals have…

Trump Revamps Performance Reviews for Top Bureaucrats - The Virginia Star

Performance reviews are about to become much more difficult for the upper echelon of federal government employees.

'No Participation Trophies': Trump Revamps Performance Reviews for Top Bureaucrats ⋆ Conservative Firing Line

The following article, ‘No Participation Trophies’: Trump Revamps Performance Reviews for Top Bureaucrats, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. Performance reviews are about to become much more difficult for the upper echelon of federal government employees. The Trump administration will soon introduce rules to end what the Office of Personnel Management describes as an “everyone gets a trophy” culture permeating the federal workforc…

Grade Inflation in Top Bureaucrats’ Performance Reviews? OPM Aims to End It

The Office of Personnel Management announced a proposed rule Thursday morning to stop including diversity, equity, and inclusion metrics and end grade inflation on senior bureaucrats’ performance evaluations. The proposed rule aims to reform the Senior Executive Service performance appraisal system. For several years, more than 96% of bureaucrats in the SES, top-level agency employees serving in leadership roles, have received high marks on perf…

‘No Participation Trophies’: Trump Revamps Performance Reviews for Top Bureaucrats

Performance reviews are about to become much more difficult for the upper echelon of federal government employees.