Foster Corporate Perspective Within The SES

1. Create and reinforce a corporate perspective within the Senior
Executive Service that supports governmentwide culture change.

To change the culture of the executive branch, a corporate approach to
managing executive resources will be needed.  Although agencies have
primary responsibility for engendering change within their own
organizations, the director of OPM is an important link between the
government as a whole and individual agencies. As a leader for change
and a consultant to agency management, OPM should foster a corps of
executives with a corporate vision, committed to fundamental change over
the long term and, at the same time, reflective of the civil service
values of merit and diversity.

OPM can work toward this goal in the following ways:

--- Ensuring that the corporate vision for change is adequately
reflected in OPM's governmentwide management development curricula
(e.g., the Federal Executive Institute and the Management Development
Centers); OPM will ensure that management development emphasizes the
vision of government in the 21st century, the ways executives will
foster that change effort, and concepts for a more effective executive
SES corps.

--- Recommending governmentwide SES policies and management development
strategies in support of government culture change efforts.

--- Overseeing an executive information system that both supports the
executive search process and provides status reports on the SES in
support of policy decisions, agency succession planning, and development
efforts.