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When your office is charged with investigating the agency you are a part of, you are at best looked at warily by the rest of the agency you oversee.  This can make positive employee morale...

Any presidential transition causes disruption to the government, as new presidents have to appoint literally thousands of new executives across the entire range of federal agencies.  But with the...

According to a Gallup study from several months ago, only one in three employees strongly agree that they received recognition or praise for any of the work they had done over the past week.  This...

The publicly-available reports detailing an investigative agency’s results can make the work of an investigator seem black and white: a certain number of cases were opened, a percentage of those...

We’ve previously discussed citizens’ perceptions that corruption in the Federal Government is “widespread”.  While updated information on perceptions specific to corruption isn’t yet available, new...

If you’ve ever put together a list of requirements for a case management system, you’ve probably noticed that some things are easier to measure than others.  It’s easy to determine whether a piece...

Over the last few years, Millennials have been subjected to a number of insulting descriptions.  Some magazine articles would have you believe they’re overly entitled narcissists who expect the...

On February 1, news surfaced at a House Government Reform Committee that several Federal IGs had received notice from the incoming presidential administration on the 13th of January that they were...

In December, we posted a blog about the the IG Empowerment Act's pending death in 2016.  Fortunately, the Senate did take the bill up in their last few days in session, and HR 6450 became law on the...