Government Reform

The Government of Puerto Rico and Oversight Board are working on a Civil Service Reform to build a more efficient, effective, and accountable government and creating an improved work experience for public sector employees. The reform program focuses on four strategic components: organizational design, compensation, recruitment, and employee evaluation. The first essay focuses on three …

Essay: Civil Service Reform: Methods and Practices Read More »

In this new policy essay, the Fiscal Oversight and Management Board’s Research and Policy Department looks at theories about employee motivation and public sector performance and identifies numerous nonmonetary mechanisms that can help reinforce strong government performance. Government officials have continued to focus mainly on salary increases to reform civil service and bolster improvements in …

Essay: Towards a stronger civil service – Creating a culture of accountability in public sector performance Read More »

Developing and nurturing a high-performing government workforce is vital to Puerto Rico’s future. To better understand the civil service’s current characteristics, the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico requested detailed information about government employees from the Office of the Administration and Transformation of Human Resources (OATRH), the government’s central personnel management agency. The …

Essay: Statistical Analysis – Civil Service Read More »

In an effort to understand the current state of human resource management in the government, our Research and Policy Department developed a series of reports to help guide the Commonwealth in their human capital planning, implementation, and evaluation processes. This first report includes a thorough examination of the existing policy framework, which includes the evaluation …

Policy Paper: Civil Service Reform Read More »

Government procurement in Puerto Rico is responsible for some of the highest levels of spending in the economy. With that scale, complex and dysfunctional procurement can be eating up management time and money that could be better used elsewhere. The Commonwealth must modernize and improve its procurement systems to satisfy the citizens’ needs and safeguard …

Essay: Improving Public Procurement in PR – Leveraging information and communication technologies to enhance transparency Read More »

Given the challenges of the central government and the fiscal sustainability of many municipal governments, this might be the best chance Puerto Rico has to truly transform the entire government structure. Author: Arnaldo Cruz, FOMB’s Director of Research and Policy Overview The proliferation of departments, public corporations, and agencies in Puerto Rico has severely hindered …

Essay: Rethinking Government, a new Commonwealth-Muni partnership Read More »