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Better systems design from better legislation from Congress
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by YankeeJim | January 19, 2011 at 06:04 am
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We want quality performance from highly qualified employees. The cost of government has less to do with hourly wages than it does with government services systems design and how organizations are staffed to support the systems. Congress has yet to grasp its role in systems design. Bad legislation produces bad systems.
Perhaps someone who has read my book can comment about this. See Smart Data, Enterprise Performance Optimization Strategy © 2010 Wiley Publishing.
“Freshman leader of key House panel says he'll focus on federal payroll cuts
By Ed O'Keefe
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 18, 2011; 8:02 PMThe new chairman of the House subcommittee responsible for federal workers and the U.S. Postal Service said Tuesday that he plans to focus first on potential cuts to the federal payroll.
Freshman Rep. Dennis A. Ross (R-Fla.), a former lawyer for Disney World, will serve as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's subcommittee on federal workers, the Postal Service and labor policy. The panel's chairman, Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), tapped Ross and another freshman, Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), to lead the panel, placing two of Capitol Hill's newest faces at the center of emerging debates over proposed cutbacks in federal pay and benefits and an overhaul of the beleaguered USPS.
Ross, 51, who represents Florida's 12th District, served in the state legislature before coming to Washington and once handled workers' compensation and entertainment contract issues for Disney World. Amash, 30, is the House's second-youngest member, and party leaders credit him with being among the first politicians to post detailed explanations of his votes on Facebook during his two years in the Michigan House.
Though the full oversight committee is expected to spend the first few weeks of the new Congress holding hearings on corruption in Afghanistan, the release of classified diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks and the nation's recent economic downturn, Issa said he wants Ross to explore building "a 21st-century federal workforce that no longer grows itself at the expense of private-sector job creation, and gets more done with less." Preventing "a fiscal meltdown" at the USPS is also "one of the central priorities" of the new Congress, Issa said in a statement.
In an interview Tuesday, Ross noted that he proposed trimming the federal payroll through pay freezes or attrition during his campaign. His new role, he said, presents "an exciting opportunity to open up and look inside the workings of our federal workforce" and learn more on a topic about which he admits he knows little.
President Obama last year ordered a two-year pay freeze for all federal employees, but the bipartisan deficit commission and several GOP lawmakers want to use a three-year pay freeze, furloughs and attrition to cut the government's payroll by billions of dollars in the next decade.”
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at 08:43 on January 19th, 2011
Another point, that I believe is equally as important, is that those bad systems which are brought in as a result of bad legislation lead to worse legislation in an impotent attempt to rectify the problem. If things were done right the first time, resources could be spent on rectifying other issues. Cutting staff and freezing pay leads to shortages of qualified staff down the road, when they are needed most. Give the federal employees systems that will work properly, and they will be more efficient, spending less time to work around known problems with the systems, and more time doing their jobs. It is the same in the private sector, if you do not pay your staff, and continually expect them to do more with less, they leave, and as a result, the outdated systems and unqualified personel lead to a lower quality of output. It is time that the "high heid yins," or for those not familiar with the Scots dialect, the upper management, learned this lesson. Job security should not mean doing something half assed the first time so you know they will call you back to fix it.....
at 13:40 on January 19th, 2011
That's a long sentence worth repeating:
"Give the federal employees systems that will work properly, and they will be more efficient, spending less time to work around known problems with the systems, and more time doing their jobs. It is the same in the private sector, if you do not pay your staff, and continually expect them to do more with less, they leave, and as a result, the outdated systems and unqualified personel lead to a lower quality of output. It is time that the "high heid yins," or for those not familiar with the Scots dialect, the upper management, learned this lesson. Job security should not mean doing something half assed the first time so you know they will call you back to fix it.....
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