Less than a week after a 2014 SBA restructuring came under fire during a House committee hearing, the agency’s chief operating officer presented Administrator Linda McMahon with recommendations meant to correct many of the problems.
As part of a larger reorganization, the SBA is targeting work force skills and knowledge transfer issues largely ignored by the earlier effort. That initiative relied on early-retirement buyouts, authorized by the Office of Personnel Management, and meant to replace obsolete competencies with up-to-date ones. Among other things, the agency failed to create a timely skills-gap analysis; identified buyout targets based on age rather than ability; and made little effort to protect institutional knowledge, acco…
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