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There has been ongoing concern that some regulations, rules, and government policies place a disproportionate burden on small businesses and entrepreneurs. For this reason, small businesses often receive special regulatory treatment, such as exemptions from legislation or extended deadlines for compliance. However, the desire to support small businesses can come into conflict with the interest in addressing the concerns that led to the regulation or policy in the first place. Moreover, it is often unclear whether special regulatory treatment for small businesses is having the intended effect.
Small business. --- Small business --- Industrial Management --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Government policy --- Law and legislation
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Provides a descriptive overview of the Department of the Navy's civilian acquisition workforce over the past decade and presents the results of preliminary analyses of data related to specific workforce management issues: retention, professional development, and leadership.
Labor supply --- Evaluation. --- United States. --- Officials and employees. --- Personnel management. --- Procurement.
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The defense acquisition workforce includes more than 126,000 military and civilian personnel responsible for providing a wide range of acquisition, technology, and logistics support to the nation's warfighters. This report summarizes workforce analyses that RAND has undertaken in support of the Defense Acquisition University, which is responsible for strategic human capital management of that workforce. It covers the civilian acquisition workforce, the careers of acquisition workforce senior executive service members, and the relationship between the military and civilian acquisition workforce. It also describes a workforce inventory projection model that uses data on the civilian acquisition workforce as a key input. The authors conclude that better definition and tracking of the acquisition workforce would improve workforce planning and that workforce analysis is only one step in an overall strategic human capital planning effort.
Manpower planning --- Personnel management. --- United States. --- Civilian employees. --- Procurement. --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Officials and employees.
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Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Armies --- United States. --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Appropriations and expenditures. --- DFAS
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In 2013, the NYC Leadership Academy (NYCLA) developed a leadership intervention—the Targeted Intensive School Support (TISS) program—in collaboration with the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) to support schools that were facing particular challenges. NYCLA asked the RAND Corporation to provide an independent evaluation of the program's implementation and effects, and those findings are detailed in this report. The TISS program consisted of five key components: (1) teaming and collaborative training in aligned preservice preparation programs for a principal and assistant principal (AP); (2) coplacement of a principal and AP into an NYC DOE school; (3) team-based coaching to support the principal and AP; (4) 328 hours of extended coaching over the first three years after placement; and (5) use of a diagnostic process to guide goal setting and coaching according to school needs. Implementation findings suggest that only two of the five key components were implemented with fidelity. A propensity weighting approach was used to compare schools with TISS principals to other schools with new principals trained through residency-based preservice programs who did not participate in TISS. Findings suggest no statistically significant differences between TISS schools and comparison schools on measures of student achievement, school culture, and principal retention. TISS schools underperformed relative to comparison schools on the measure of chronic student absenteeism.
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The defense acquisition workforce (AW) is responsible for providing acquisition, technology, and logistics support for products and services to ensure that the U.S. military is an effective fighting force. The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment has directed the deployment of a comprehensive workforce analysis capability to facilitate assessments of the AW, and RAND researchers have aided in this effort by providing reports with updates on workforce gains and losses, as well as targeted analyses of specific topics of interest. In 2022, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) began implementing the Back-to-Basics (BtB) initiative - the most significant change to the defense AW management infrastructure since its inception in the early 1990s. In this report, the researchers provide an update to their previous work and a final characterization of the pre-BtB AW. They present a descriptive overview of the AW as of the end of fiscal year (FY) 2021, describe changes to the AW over time, discuss the potential implications of a recent transition for the workforce, and identify opportunities for the collection of new data that could support decisionmaking.
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This text records the results of an investigation into ways in which the service provided by the DFAS to its military customers could be improved. Broadly, four recommendations were made: develop the ability to respond to crises, continue pricing reforms, acquire new software, and utilize the Web.
United States - Armed Forces - Appropriations and. --- United States. --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Appropriations and expenditures. --- Accounting.
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Given the focus on accountability in education, stakeholders are interested in evaluating whether efforts aimed at improving school leadership show results; the key criteria are student outcomes. This report describes challenges that states, districts, and other entities can expect to encounter as they evaluate efforts targeting school leadership as a way to improve student outcomes and offers suggestions for dealing with those challenges.
School administrators. --- School management and organization. --- School improvement programs. --- Improvement programs, School --- Instructional improvement programs --- Programs, School improvement --- School self-improvement programs --- School management and organization --- Administration, Educational --- Educational administration --- Inspection of schools --- Operation policies, School --- Policies, School operation --- School administration --- School inspection --- School operation policies --- School organization --- Schools --- Education --- Management --- Organization --- Administrators, School --- Educators --- Inspection --- Management and organization
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The job of the school principal has become much more complex and demanding over the past several decades. Many university-based principal preparation programs - which prepare the majority of school principals - have struggled with how to make the fundamental changes needed to prepare principals for today's schools. To test a path forward, The Wallace Foundation provided grants to seven universities and their partners to redesign their principal preparation programs in line with research-supported practices. This targeted report shares findings from the RAND Corporation's five-year study of The Wallace Foundation's University Principal Preparation Initiative (UPPI), with an emphasis on findings for other principal preparation programs.
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Reviews workforce-planning and requirements-determination literature, analyzes data sources, and interviews individuals in workforce-planning activities at various Department of Defense (DoD) levels, to explore workforce planning and requirements determination at specific installations and identify potential planning-process roles for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and data sources for DoD-wide workforce planning.
Manpower planning --- United States. --- Personnel management. --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Civilian employees.
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