Federal Human Capital Reform

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Federal Human Capital Reform

  • People are critical to successful transformation

  • However, the existing federal personnel system is outmoded and a barrier to transformation needed to address 21st Century challenges

  • GAO placed strategic human capital management on the high risk list in 2001 to focus attention on needed reforms

  • More progress on reform has been achieved in the last 5 years than in the previous 20

    • Legislative reforms
    • President's Management Agenda
    • Individual agencies' efforts