Hiring government leaders: Lessons from the private sector

Key Points

• The process of appointing cabinet leaders and hiring senior administration staff is a president’s first and most important management challenge.
• Insights about executive selection methods from a half century of research from the disparate fields of political science and industrial psychology offer some clues about how to improve cabinet and senior staff selection.
• Many structural challenges exist in the cabinet appointment process as a whole, but significant improvements can be made in the selection and “interviewing” steps that do not require statutory amendments or congressional action.
• Adopting proven selection methods would improve the executive branch’s performance.

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