Program/Project Management Resource List #53

Revised Aug. 2007

According to the Partnership for Public Service, more than half of all federal supervisory workers are due to retire in the next five years. NASA will be seriously affected by this trend, as nearly half of NASA's executive staff are eligible for retirement today.

Knowledge management can save the lessons of the past, but they will only be useful if NASA brings a fresh crop of managers on board. This resource list explores how NASA can prevent "brain drain" by bringing in a new generation of managers while minimizing the problems that can take place when the helm changes hands. The library maintains resource lists on developing one's own skills as a leader, manager, and on transitioning from the technical hierarchy to the managerial hierarchy. For insight on how these demographic trends will affect NASA's scientists and engineers, please see Human Capital Management in the Technical Fields.

All items are available at the Headquarters Library, except as noted. NASA Headquarters employees and contractors: call (358-0172) or email Library@hq.nasa.gov for information on borrowing or in-library use of any of these items. Members of the public, contact your Local Library for the availability of these items. NASA Headquarters employees can request additional materials or research on this topic. The Library welcomes your comments or suggestions about this webpage.

NASA Policies

NASA's human resources and personnel policies and procedural requirements can be accessed by anyone through the NASA Online Directives Information System.

Books

Barner, Robert. Executive Resource Management: Building and Retaining an Exceptional Leadership Team. Palo Alto, CA: Davies-Black Pub., 2000.

HD38.2 .B37 2000 PPM-STACKS

 

Liebowitz, Jay. Addressing the Human Capital Crisis in the Federal Government: A Knowledge Management Perspective. Amsterdam; Boston, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004.

JK765 .L54 2004 BOOKSTACKS

 

National Academy of Public Administration. Balancing a Multisector Workforce to Achieve a Healthy Organization. Washington, DC: National Academy of Public Administration, 2007.

JK765 .B35 2007 BOOKSTACKS

 

Rothwell, William J., and H.C. Kazanas. Building In-house Leadership and Management Development Programs: Their Creation, Management, and Continuous Improvement. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1999.

HD30.4 .R68 1999 PPM-STACKS

 

Rothwell, William J. Effective Succession Planning: Ensuring Leadership Continuity and Building Talent From Within. New York, NY: AMACOM, 2001.

HD57.7 .R68 2001 PPM-STACKS

 

United States. Merit Systems Protection Board. The Federal Workforce for the Twenty-First Century: Results of the Merit Principles Survey 2000: A Report to the President and the Congress of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, 2003.

JK765 .U55 2003 BOOKSTACKS

 

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics. NASA Workforce and Management Challenges: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, July 18, 2002. Washington, DC: U.S. G.P.O.: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O. Congressional Sales Office, 2003.

KF27 .S39 N36 2003 BOOKSTACKS

 

__________. The NASA Workforce: Does NASA Have the Right Strategy and Policies to Retain and Build the Workforce It Will Need?: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, June 13, 2006. Washington, DC: U.S. G.P.O.: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2006.

KF27 .S32 W67 2006 BOOKSTACKS

 

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA's Workforce Plan: For the Use of the NASA Flexibility Act of 2004 Authorities. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Human Resources, 2004.

TL521.312 .N3752 2004 BOOKSTACKS

 

__________. Strategic Human Capital Implementation Plan. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2003.

TL521.312 .S772 2003 BOOKSTACKS

 

__________. Strategic Human Capital Plan. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2003.

TL521.312 .S77 2003 BOOKSTACKS

 

__________. Office of Human Resources and Education. National Recruitment Initiative. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2002.

TL521.312 .N366 2002 BOOKSTACKS

 

Walker, David M. NASA Management Challenges: Human Capital and Other Critical Areas Need to be Addressed: Statement of David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States. Washington, DC: The Office, 2002.

TL521.312 .W36 2002 BOOKSTACKS

Articles and Reports

Cantor, Paul. "Succession Planning: Often Requested, Rarely Delivered", Ivey Business Journal, vol. LXIX, no. 3 (Jan./Feb. 2005), p. 1-10.

Available through the online archives of the Ivey Business Journal

 

Ciampa, Dan. "Almost Ready: How Leaders Move Up", Harvard Business Review, vol. LXXXIII, no. 1 (Jan. 2005), p. 46-53.

 

Gabarro, John J. "When a New Manager Takes Charge", Harvard Business Review, vol. LXXXV, no. 1 (Jan. 2007), p. 104-117.

 

Guruvadoo, Eranna K. "Integrated Workforce Planning Model: A Proof of Concept", in 2001 Research Reports NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program,NASA/CR-2001-210265, Kennedy Space Center, FL, Oct. 2001.

(20020050546: (26 March 2007) NTRS)

 

Ibarra, Patrick. "The Myths and Realities of Succession Planning", Public Management, vol. LXXXIX, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 2007), p. 24-27.

Available through Factiva

 

Pelletier, Ray. "Younger Managers, Older Workers", Occupational Health and Safety, vol. LXXIV, no. 11 (Nov. 2005), p. 22-24.

Available through the online archives of Occupational Health and Safety

 

Pynes, Joan E. "The Implementation of Workforce and Succession Planning in the Public Sector", Public Personnel Management, vol. XXXIII, no. 4 (Winter 2004), p. 389-404.

Available through ABI Inform

 

Robb, Drew. "Succeeding with Succession", HR Magazine, vol. LI, no. 1 (Jan. 2006), p. 89-92.

Available through ABI Inform

 

Russell, Rob. "Riding the Gray Wave", Occupational Health and Safety, vol. LXXVII, no. 8 (Aug. 2007).

Available through the online archives of Occupational Health and Safety

 

Internet Resources

Hoffman, Edward J. Ask Magazine Archive. Mentoring. 2006 [13 Aug. 2007].

http://appel.nasa.gov/ask/archives/lessons.php?lesson=13

 

Hoffman, Edward J. Ask Magazine Archive. Recruiting. 2006 [13 Aug. 2007].

http://appel.nasa.gov/ask/archives/lessons.php?lesson=19

 

Stewart, Mike. NASA Human Capital Management. 29 June 2007 [24 Aug. 2007].

http://nasapeople.nasa.gov/

 

__________. NASA Human Capital Program. 4 June 2007 [24 Aug. 2007].

http://nasapeople.nasa.gov/HCM/default.htm

 

__________. NASA Workforce Implementation Plan. 29 June 2007 [24 Aug. 2007].

http://nasapeople.nasa.gov/HCM/index_sbg.htm

 

Weaver, Karen. NASA Recruiting. 29 June 2007 [24 Aug. 2007].

http://nasapeople.nasa.gov/recruitment/index.htm

 

Williams, Chris. NASA Leadership Development Program. 22 June 2007 [24 Aug. 2007].

http://ldp.nasa.gov/index.htm

Human Capital Institute. 2006 [24 Aug. 2007].

http://www.humancapitalinstitute.org/hci/hci.home

 

Partnership for Public Service. 2007 [30 Aug. 2007].

http://ourpublicservice.org/OPS/

 

RAND Corporation. Workforce Planning in Complex Organizations. 2004 [24 Aug. 2007].

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB7570/index1.html

 

Society of Workforce Planning Professionals. 2003. [24 Aug. 2007].

http://www.swpp.org/

 

Walsh, Trudy. Succession Planning. 2006 [24 Aug. 2007].

http://www.governmentleader.com/issues/1_7/features/151-1.html