United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2008-05-08 monographic deposited born digital 17 p. GA 1.13:GAO-08-762T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-762T P0b002ee18038b8cf f:d08762t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-762T machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-762T GAO-08-762T Accountability Diversity management Employee retention Employees Employment Federal agencies Federal employees Hiring policies Human capital Human capital management Human capital planning Human capital policies Personnel recruiting Program evaluation Program management Risk assessment Risk management Skilled labor Staff utilization Strategic planning program goals or objectives GAO High Risk Series Testimony A82021 To address the challenges that the nation faces, it will be important for federal agencies to change their cultures and create the institutional capacity to become high-performing organizations. This includes recruiting and retaining a federal workforce able to create, sustain, and thrive in organizations that are flatter, results-oriented, and externally focused. In 2001, GAO identified strategic human capital management as a governmentwide high-risk area because federal agencies lacked a strategic approach to human capital management that integrated human capital efforts with their missions and program goals. Although progress has been made since that time, strategic human capital management still remains a high-risk area. This testimony, based on a large body of completed work issued from January 2001 through April 2008, focuses on (1) challenges that federal agencies have faced in recruiting and hiring talented employees, (2) progress in addressing these challenges, and (3) additional actions that are needed to strengthen recruiting and hiring efforts. In its prior reports, GAO has made a range of recommendations to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)--the government's personnel agency--and to agencies in such areas as hiring, workforce planning, and diversity management; a number of these recommendations have since been implemented. GAO is making no new recommendations at this time. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-762T/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-762T.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-762T/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-762T.pdf GAO-08-762T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-762T Testimony GAO-08-762T; Human Capital: Transforming Federal Recruiting and Hiring Efforts; Accountability Diversity management Employee retention Employees Employment Federal agencies Federal employees Hiring policies Human capital Human capital management Human capital planning Human capital policies Personnel recruiting Program evaluation Program management Risk assessment Risk management Skilled labor Staff utilization Strategic planning program goals or objectives GAO High Risk Series Public Law 107-296