Federal Reports

The Office of the Inspector General previously conducted an evaluation of the Human Resources (HR) organization (Evaluation Report 2016-15445-05 issued September 26, 2017) to identify operational and cultural strengths and risks that could impact HR’s organizational effectiveness. Our report identified several strengths and risks along with recommendations for addressing those risks. The objective of this follow-up evaluation was to assess management’s actions to address the risks included in our initial organizational effectiveness evaluation. We determined HR has taken actions to address some of the risks outlined in our initial organizational effectiveness evaluation. However, issues related to (1) differences between the Human Resource generalist (HRG) and senior HRG roles; (2) execution risks, including the HRG transition to a more strategic role, employee feedback mechanism, and role clarity; and (3) ethical and inclusion concerns remain unresolved.

The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigated an allegation that the Executive Director of the Florida National Cemetery improperly stored his personal vehicle in a garage on Long Island National Cemetery property after he transferred to Florida and asked subordinates to drive him in government vehicles to and from his residence on the Long Island National Cemetery property to the airport. The Executive Director of the Calverton National Cemetery also allegedly asked subordinates to drive him in government vehicles to and from his residence and the airport. Additionally two employees allegedly misused VA resources by taking two government vehicles from New York to training in Virginia and one extended his travel to sightsee with his spouse. The OIG did not substantiate any of these allegations.

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Tennessee Valley Authority business units are expected to find, analyze, and fix conditions that affect personnel safety, asset reliability, adverse trends, or other conditions that do not meet expectations. Condition reports (CR) are created to record how problems are found, analyzed, and solved. Due to the importance of finding, analyzing, and resolving concerns identified at coal plants, we conducted an evaluation of CRs at TVA coal plants to determine if (1) Coal Operations generated CRs for reported safety, environmental, and operational incidents; and (2) actions taken to address coal CRs were timely and effectiveWe found that CRs were originated for all environmental incidents; however, some safety and operational incidents did not result in CRs being originated as required by the procedure. We also found that not all actions taken to address CRs were timely, and some CR originators perceived that actions taken were not effective. In addition, we found opportunities for improvement related to (1) classification of CRs by significance level, (2) documentation of actions taken to address CRs, and (3) discrepancies in the Standard Programs and Processes that govern this process.