Ensuring Human Capital Capabilities and Capacity During Organizational Change : National Academy of Public Administration , 2025
Ensuring Human Capital Capabilities and Capacity During Organizational Change : National Academy of Public Administration , 2025
From the report: “As the federal government goes through major reform and restructuring, the National Academy of Public Administration (Academy) is offering its expertise and long history in public administration to develop a series of products to help guide public institutions and leaders through these changes. Each product is developed by Academy staff in collaboration with Academy Fellows and informed by past reports. Federal entities are at different stages of transformation and change. Therefore, while the guidance is not one-size-fits-all, it does provide considerations intended to support all departments and agencies. In addition to these products, the Academy staff and its Fellows stand ready to be a resource for public institutions as they restructure and rebuild to ensure they can continue their mission of serving the American people.
This paper focuses on human capital and human resource considerations that arise as agencies change how they carry out their operational functions in delivering their mission; what are the human capital implications of restructured functions across the entire agency workforce, and does the agency have sufficient human resources staff to implement the changes? Agency functions and staff may be reduced and or repositioned through realignment, transfer—either intra- or inter-agency, relocation, consolidation, outsourcing by contracts or grants to professional contractors or non-governmental organizations, devolution to state or local government by congressional action, or even outright elimination. This paper will use the terms “realignment, transfer, or relocation” to capture all the possibilities described above unless otherwise noted.”
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