Number: R40031
Title: Federal Employee Awards and Incentives: Title 5 Authorities and Potential Issues for Congress
Authors: Clinton T. Brass, Government and Finance Division 
Abstract: Potential issues for Congress related to employee awards and incentives include questions of how to provide agencies with effective human resources management tools in light of agency missions and resource levels; how agencies are using these and other authorities to recruit, motivate, reward, and retain high-performing workforces; how to structure oversight and regulation of agency practices within the executive branch; and how to exercise congressional oversight over a civil service system that is increasingly fragmented (i.e., decentralized in execution and customized to individual agencies and workforces).
Pages: 26
Date: December 9, 2008