Human Capital The Most Critical Asset

Since the comptroller general placed the management of human capital

on the U.S. Government Accountability Offices list of high-risk programs

in 1999, a series of legislative and policy initiatives have tried to

recast the way federal agencies think about and perform the human capital

function.Although many have been high profile, for the most part these efforts

have not succeeded in redirecting the management of governments most critical

asset, the people who perform its work.

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