Program/Project Management Resource List #59

Revised July 2009

Provided by the NASA Headquarters Library

As the golden anniversary of NASA's founding recedes into memory, NASA and its chief contractors face a crisis. Many of their scientists and engineers are as old-or older-than NASA itself. The problem will probably get worse as NASA faces a stretch of several years without an in-house capability to launch people to space, and the uniquely skilled people who have accomplished this feat time and time again retire. Knowledge management can preserve the tradecraft that NASA developed over the years, but tradecraft is only worth preserving if there is someone to use it. This pathfinder explores how NASA can stem the "brain drain" of retirement and successfully compete for the dwindling population of technically skilled American workers. For information on NASA's growing need for managerial talent, please see the library's webpage on Executive Resource Management. For more information on what can be done about this situation in the long run, please see the library's webpages on Science Education, Scientific Literacy, and Communicating Science.

All items are available at the Headquarters Library, except as noted. NASA Headquarters employees and contractors: call x0172 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

The following policies and procedural requirements can be accessed by anyone through the NASA Online Directives Information System:

 

NASA Policy Directive 3000.1B: Management of Human Resources

 

NASA Policy Directive 3010.1A: Strategic Workforce Planning

 

NASA Procedural Requirements 3300.1B: Appointment of Personnel To/From NASA

 

NASA Procedural Requirements 3319.1A: Management of Senior Scientific and Technical (ST) and other Senior Level (SL) Positions

Books

Butz, William P. Will the Scientific and Technical Workforce Meet the Requirements of the Federal Government?. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2004.

Q149 .U5 R44 W55 2004 BOOKSTACKS

 

Fields, Martha R. A. Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them, How to Keep Them. Franklin Lakes, NJ: Career Press, 2001.

HF5549.5 .R44 F54 2001 BOOKSTACKS

 

Jackson, Shirley Ann. Envisioning a 21^st Century Science and Engineering Workforce for the United States: Tasks for University, Industry, and Government. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2003.

Q149 .U5 J33 2003 BOOKSTACKS

 

Kelly, Terrence K, William P. Butz, et al. (eds.). The U.S. Scientific and Technical Workforce: Improving Data for Decisionmaking. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2004.

Q149 .U5 R36 W67 2004 BOOKSTACKS

 

De Long, David W. Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004.

HD58.82 .D4 2004 PPM-STACKS

 

Henning, Garth, and Richard Leshner. The State of the Next Generation of Explorers. Washington, DC: NASA Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation, 2008.

TL521.312 .N37 S738 2008 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

 

National Research Council. Committee on Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration. Issues Affecting the Future of the U.S. Space Science and Engineering Workforce: Interim Report. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2006.

Q149 .U5 N38 S63 2006 BOOKSTACKS

 

National Research Council. Space Studies Board. Building a Better NASA Workforce: Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2007.

Q149 .U5 N38 N37 2007 BOOKSTACKS

 

Stine, Deborah D., and Clinton T. Brass. Hiring and Pay authorities for Federal Scientific and Technical (S and T) Personnel. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2009.

JK776 .U63 H575 2009 BOOKSTACKS

E-books

All e-books listed here are available to NASA civil servants and contractors through the Books 24x7 service of SATERN.

 

Ahlrichs, Nancy S. Igniting Gen B and Gen V: The New Rules of Engagement for Boomers, Veterans, and Other Long-Termers on the Job. Davies-Black Publishing, 2007.

 

American Productivity and Quality Center. Talent Management: From Competencies to Organizational Performance. APQC, 2004.

 

Bechet, Thomas P. Strategic Staffing: A Comprehensive System for Effective Workforce Planning. AMACOM, 2008.

 

Gandossy, Robert, Elissa Tucker and Nidhi Verma (eds.). Workforce Wake-Up Call: Your Workforce is Changing, Are You?. John Wiley and Sons, 2006.

 

Heenan, David. Flight Capital: The Alarming Exodus of America's Best and Brightest. Davies-Black Publishing, 2005.

 

Kustka, Bob. Planning Tomorrow's Workforce Today. Acanthus Publishing, 2007

 

Reed, Alec. Innovation in Human Resource Management: Tooling Up for the Talent Wars. CIPD Enterprises, 2001.

 

Thorne, Kaye, and Andy Pellant. The Essential Guide to Managing Talent: How Top Companies Recruit, Train and Retain the Best Employees. Kogan Page, 2007.

Articles and Reports

Bond, Leonard, Kevin Kostelnik, and Richard Holman. "Addressing the workforce pipeline challenge", in: ANS Winter Meeting and Nuclear Technology Expo, Albuquerque, NM, Nov. 12-16, 2006.

(911871: (Feb. 2008) DOE Information Bridge)

 

Donohue, John T. "Workforce Challenges and Retention Success Stories", in: IEEE Aerospace Conference: Developing the 21^st Century Space Engineering Workforce, Big Sky, MT, March 1-8, 2008.

(20080040867: (Nov. 10, 2008) NTRS)

 

Maughan, Brian D. "Mentoring Among Scientists: Implications of Interpersonal Relationships within a Formal Mentoring Program", Winter Meeting and Nuclear Technology Expo, Albuquerque, NM, Nov. 12-16, 2006.

(911875: (Feb. 2008) DOE Information Bridge)

 

Sterk, Steve, and Stephen Chesley. "Civil Service Workforce Market Supply and the Effect on the Cost Estimating Relationships (CERs) that may effect the Productivity Factors for Future NASA Missions", in: European Space Agency International Society Parametric Analysis, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, May 12-16, 2008.

(20080022349: (July 8, 2008) NTRS)

 

Stern, S. Alan, et al. Demographics of Investigators Involved in OSSA-Funded Research. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Center for Space and Geosciences Policy, Feb. 1, 1991.

(20010050141: (June 2, 2008) NTRS)

 

Internet Resources

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

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

 

McCann, Mike. NASA Office of Human Capital Management. Dec. 2008 [July 7, 2009].

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

 

National Bureau of Economic Research. Science and Engineering Workforce Project. Dec. 18, 2008 [July 7, 2009].

http://www.nber.org/~sewp/index.html

 

National Science Foundation. Division of Science Resources Statistics. Workforce. Oct. 12, 2005 [July 7, 2009].

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/showpub.cfm?TopID=14

 

Partnership for Public Service. 2009 [July 7, 2009].

http://ourpublicservice.org/OPS/

 

Pine, Alex. NASA Transition. June 2, 2009. [July 22, 2009].

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/transition/home/index.html

 

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

http://www.swpp.org/