As Supervisors Retire: An Opportunity to Reshape Organizations

摘要

There has been much discussion of the coming retirement wave, including the need for agencies to prepare for a corresponding wave of hiring. However, not all types of positions in the Federal Government will be hit equally by this predicted mass exodus of skilled employees. The supervisory and managerial cadre are likely to experience the most losses, as individuals in those positions tend to be older and have more years of service than their non-supervisory counterparts, making more of them eligible to retire. While this means that agencies should now consider how to hire their future supervisors, it also means that they should be asking some very serious questions about how the agencies' workforces should be structured 5 or 10 years from now. The predicted retirement wave and subsequent hiring effort presents not just an opportunity to change who works for an agency, but also an opportunity to change how the organization functions for the better.