A Broken Civil Service System Could Break Government
Nearly everyone in the public administration world says that the civil service system is far from perfect and needs to be fixed. The rules governing the system have not been updated in decades, leaving the federal government\u2019s workforce systems in the proverbial stone age. The bifurcated political landscape has not helped, with more elected officials proposing more so-called solutions that would cut, degrade or otherwise hamstring the professional civil service.
Jeffrey Neal is former chief human capital officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. In this episode, you\u2019ll hear the second part of\xa0Neal's conversation with GovExec Daily about the reasons that modernization has been so slow going, how it can be accelerated\xa0 and the Academy\u2019s role in moving modernization forward.
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