WHO: Robert Tobias, distinguished practitioner in residence, department of public administration and policy,director of the Key Executive Leadership Programs WHAT: Analysis of sequester on federal employees
WHEN: May 22 - ongoing
WHERE: American University, in-studio, via telephone
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 22, 2013) —Some Federal employees will soon be feeling the summer furlough pinch and their morale is taking a beating. Government managers face not only grim faced employees, but having to complete the same amount of work with less employee time to achieve it. Federal government managers and members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) could begin to hear the giant sucking sound from the federal workforce as furloughed workers pursue other work in the private sector. Frustrated consumers of government services will also soon feel the trickle-down effect. Concurrently, skilled managers might be cherry picked by the private sector as the economy begins to recover. This could potentially leave a gaping hole in the federal workforce for years to come due to the brain-drain from federal ranks which may ironically end up costing the government more in the long run.
How can projects be kept on schedule? What leadership challenges will be faced? Robert Tobias, American University School of Public Affairs distinguished practitioner in residence department of public administration and policy and director of the Key Executive Leadership Programs -- a public sector leadership program empowering good federal managers to become extraordinary leaders who build an environment for organizational success in the federal government—is available to discuss the impact of the sequester on federal employees and the function of government. On the sequester, Tobias says, “Those critical of government and suggest that the government run more like a business are acting in a manner that is contrary to running the government like a business. What business would threaten to furlough those adding to revenue or what board of directors would place an operating division in financial limbo for several months and then claim it does not plan adequately?”
President Clinton nominated Tobias and the Senate confirmed him for a five-year term as a member of the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board. Former Secretary of Homeland Security Thomas Ridge and Kay Coles James, director, Office of Personnel Management s<b>elected him to serve on the Human Resource Management System Senior Review Advisory Committee. In addition, former Comptroller General David Walker appointed Tobias to the congressionally created Commercial Activities Panel. Tobias is a frequent contributor to Federal Times, Government Employees Relations Report, and Government Executive magazine on current federal sector public policy implementation issues.
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