Transforming the Civil Service
Building the Workforce of the Future: Results of a GAO-Sponsored Symposium Gao ID: GGD-96-35 December 26, 1995In April 1995, GAO sponsored a symposium--"Transforming the Civil Service: Building the Workforce of the Future"--that brought together representatives of leading private sector firms, public sectors employers from both the United States and abroad, and distinguished former federal officials to discuss new approaches to managing people. This report distills from their discussions a set of emerging human resource management principles and points out some of the implications should Congress consider applying these ideas to the federal civil service.