Human Capital Trends in Executive and Judicial Pay Suggest a Reexamination of the Total Compensation Package

Abstract

People are critical to the success of the federal government's overall transformation effort. Yet the government has not transformed, in many cases for decades, how it classifies, compensates, develops, and motivates its employees to achieve maximum results with available resources and existing authorities. This is especially the case with the federal government's top leadership and federal justices and judges.Leading organizations understand that they must often change their culture to successfully transform themselves, and that such a changestarts with top leadership. Most importantly, senior leaders who are drivers of continuous improvement are needed to stimulate and support efforts to facilitate change and achieve related transformation efforts for the federal government. At the Chairman's request, we recently reported on executive and judicial pay - Human Capital: Trends in Executive and Judicial Pay (GAO-06-708). This testimony highlights information from that report.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 20, 2006
Accession Number
AD1179830

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  • David M. Walker

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  • United States Government Accountability Office

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  • Biomedical

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  • Accountability
  • Administrative Law
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  • Compensation
  • Congress
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  • Governments
  • House Of Representatives
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  • Military Personnel
  • Money
  • National Governments
  • Personnel Management
  • United States
  • United States Government

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