About Us and Our Partners
The Partnership for Public Service and the Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation (ISPPI) at American University are nonprofit, nonpartisan organizations committed to promoting public service and fostering excellence in the federal government. To that end, the Partnership and ISPPI joined forces to create the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings.
Partnership for Public Service
The Partnership for Public Service is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works to revitalize the federal government by inspiring a new generation to serve and by transforming the way government works. The Partnership:
- Raises awareness and helps improve public attitudes about government service.
- Promotes government service through outreach to college campuses and jobseekers.
- Provides hands-on assistance to federal agencies to improve their operations.
- Advocates for needed legislative and regulatory reforms to strengthen the civil service.
- Generates thought-provoking research on, and effective responses to, the workforce challenges facing the federal government.
Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation
American University’s Public Sector Executive Education program is composed of The Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation (ISPPI) and the Key Executive Leadership MPA and Certificate programs. ISPPI conducts research and facilitates dialogue among the critical stakeholders in the public policy implementation process: members of Congress, political appointees, career executives, union leaders, academics and consultants. The Key Executive Leadership MPA and Certificate Programs focus on increasing leadership capacity among public sector leaders. The Public Sector Executive Education program is part of the American University’s School of Public Affairs which offers public affairs education in the graduate, undergraduate and executive levels in the fields of public administration, public policy, political science, and justice.
Our Partners
Hay Group
Hay Group is a global human resources consulting firm specializing in employee and customer survey research, leadership development, compensation, change management, and benefits and compensation. Hay Group consults with more than 7,000 clients throughout the world, including over 50 percent of the firms in the Fortune 1000. In the public sector, Hay Group clients include virtually all branches and departments of the federal government, and hundreds of state and local government agencies.
Hay Group Insight, Hay Group's survey research division, has partnered with more than 4,000 organizations over the past 32 years to design and implement leading-edge employee and customer survey programs, including many of the World's and America's Most Admired Companies (as identified by our research with Fortune Magazine). Through customized survey programs, Hay Group Insight helps organizations increase employee engagement and effectiveness, retain top talent, enhance customer satisfaction, improve operating efficiency, and so forth. Hay Group Insight maintains norms allowing benchmark comparisons to U.S. organizations overall, industry norms, and high performing companies that many clients use to track progress in achieving best-in-class levels.
U.S. News and World Report
Founded in 1933, the weekly national news magazine U.S. News & World Report is devoted to investigative journalism and reporting and to analyzing national and international affairs, politics, business, health, science, technology and social trends. Through its annual rankings of America's Best Colleges, America’s Best Graduate Schools, America's Best Hospitals and America’s Best Health Plans, as well as its News You Can Use® brand, U.S. News has earned a reputation as the leading provider of service news and information that improves the quality of life of its readers. Available online at www.usnews.com, the U.S. News Web site extends that brand promise and delivers the best, most accurate information on the Web, organized in a way that is accessible and easy to use.
The Best Places to Work rankings — the most comprehensive and authoritative rating of employee engagement in the federal government — are produced by the Partnership for Public Service and American University’s Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation (ISPPI).
