Margaret Weichert, acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, told Federal Times in an interview published Tuesday about the role of workforce in technology change initiatives and the agency’s plan to focus on performance management.
“Performance management is an area where we’re looking very closely at things that are in the regulatory realm: areas where there are perhaps artificial barriers to rewarding people, limits imposed on how much they could be given a bonus — or how bonuses are distributed between, let’s say, SES and our senior technical leaders, the SL cadre of folks,†Weichert said.
She mentioned OPM’s efforts to bring in government professionals with skills in science, technology, engineering, math and cyber. Weichert, who also serves as deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, discussed the need for the government to attract young professionals and exercise flexibility when it comes to core pay and benefits programs.
“In the end, we are still able to attract people, because they’re attracted to the mission, but, overall, we need to be able to be more flexible and respond to the changing nature of the way rewards and recognition work in the broader economy,†she noted. She also shared her thoughts on funding for major change initiatives.
