HUMAN CAPITAL

Minorities comprised ______ percent of the Senior Executive Service in 2005.

12

How many potential managerial layers of government did Paul Light find from top to bottom in the federal government?

52

All of the following have launched major human capital campaigns EXCEPT the

National Academy of Public Administration.

The classic standards for hiring and firing, the preferences for veterans in recruitment, and the prohibition against nepotism, among other requirements, all fall under

Title 5 of the U.S. Code.

T/F: Members of the Senior Executive Service tend to be highly specialized.

True

T/F: Over the past two decades three states—Texas, Georgia. and Florida—have proven their staunch allegiance to the merit aspect of the civil service system.

True

T/F: The United States has a far larger number of political officials at the top of the bureaucracy than do other western democracies.

True

T/F: Two-thirds of the members of the Senior Executive Service have advanced degrees.

True

The development of a strategy to recruit and retain the workers the government needs and to ensure that they produce strong and effective government programs describes which issue?

human capital

In 2001, ______ identified human capital management as a high-risk area facing the entire government.

the GAO

According to the text, broadbanding introduces all of the following risks EXCEPT

the reduced number of job categories.

_____ was created by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.

The Senior Executive Service

______ collapses the typically large number of job categories in most government personnel systems into a far smaller number.

Broadbanding

T/F: The median length of service for presidential appointees is nearly four years.

False: 2 years

In 1996, Governor ______ abolished his/her state's merit system.

Zell Miller (Georgia)

Turnover of political appointees creates all of the following problems EXCEPT

a lack of commitment to serve the public.

The Senior Executive Service has experienced all of the following problems EXCEPT

a lack of federal government experience among its employees.?

The Volcker Commission argued that the number of political appointees was

an impediment to government performance.?

All of the following are norms that shape the lives of the so-called Net Generation EXCEPT

attention: inability to focus for longer than 20-minute intervals.

The federal Office of Personnel Management has published human capital standards that chart the connections between which of the following four elements?

broadbanding, human capital, career development, potential for abuse

According to Terry Moe there is a mismatch between the public's _____and ________which leads to a greater number of political appointments.

expectations of a president; the limited resources available

Although they have subject knowledge relevant to their particular responsibilities, ______ often lack experience in the federal executive branch and in management

federal political appointees

The government has failed in building human capital partly because of

the lack of adequate strategic human capital planning.