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U.S. federal agency workforces are typically believed to epitomize equal opportunity and diversity. Yet, an analysis of employment data reveals that minorities are still underrepresented in senior government positions. The percentage of minority senior federal employees do not match the percentages of minorities in the general population or at lower levels of the civil service. Various programs can be adopted to ensure that diversity is embraced and that steps are taken to increase the representation of minorities across all levels of federal agency employment.

The Outstanding Scholar Program (OSP) allows federal agencies to employ streamlined hiring processes and to offer higher starting salaries to college graduates with a grade point average of at least 3.5 or who graduate in the top 10% of their university or department. OSP data were analyzed from a data set of 47,976 OSP employees hired from 1991 through 2000. Based on job fit theory and generational theory, independent variables theorized to improve employee recruitment and retention rates were tested using chi-square tests and a logistic regression model. Independent variables found to improve these rates include occupations congruent to educational backgrounds, hiring agencies with higher proportions of white-collar professional occupations, and occupations with higher initial grade levels. Because OSP employees are age and knowledge cohorts within Generation X, agencies should also offer occupations with meaningful job content, job independence, good benefits, feedback, and opportunities for employees to learn new things.

The U.S. government is an ever-more-complex system that few American citizens comprehend in any detail. Even some of its most basic operations, seemingly clear in concept, are in reality intricate and obscure. Although textbooks explain how the government is supposed to work in theory, they don't reveal how it actually works in practice. This book offers a concise and objective explanation of government operations, mapping the federal government's branches, departments, agencies, corporations, and quasi-official bodies--and the bureaucracies that support them. The authors effectively bridge the.