WASHINGTON—Trump administration officials at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are set to introduce a comprehensive set of reforms to how the performance of top echelon of career executives is appraised.
There are more than 7,000 members of the federal government’s Senior Executive Service (SES), which represents the highest level of career management authority in the civil service. The reforms coming from the Trump administration are the most thorough since the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
“This new governmentwide SES Performance Appraisal System and Performance Plan will deliver enhanced accountability and help restore a ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people,’” a Feb. 25 memo to all department and agency heads from Acting OPM Director Charles Ezell reads….