Articles by Steve Oppermann
As the Economy Crumbles: One Federal Retiree's Feeble Attempts to Cope
How are you coping in the current economic climate? Many federal retirees are having to "economize" in some form or other in order to maintain our standard of living. Here is the experience of one federal employee who took his money out of the Thrift Savings Plan and invested on his own.
Posted: March 17, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Good Morning America Takes On Workplace Bullying
An estimated 54 million people say they have been bullied at work. "While men tend to target male and female employees equally, women bosses are likely to aim their hostility toward other women more than 70 percent of the time..."
Posted: March 5, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Workplace Bullying, Part Two
In this article, the author addresses issues raised by FedSmith readers on "bullying" in the workplace. He also offers advice to employees who believe they have been subjected to bullying and how actions are likely to be perceived by others.
Posted: February 17, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Returning Veterans Seeking Employment: When the Trickle Turns Into a Flood
The number of returning veterans with major wounds is likely to be very large, and federal agencies will have to be creative, probably to an unprecedented degree, in coming up with the reasonable accommodations that will be needed. Is there the will in federal agencies to hire them?
Posted: December 31, 2008 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Workplace Bullying: Psychological Violence?
Bullying in the workplace is a form of workplace violence and can include "cyber-bullying," a new form of violence as current as today's headlines. Bullying takes a toll on an individual and has an impact in the workplace as well.
Posted: December 3, 2008 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
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Steve Oppermann completed his Federal career on March 31, 1997, after more than 26 years of service, virtually all in human resources management. Steve rose from a basic personnel management trainee at Fort Riley, Kansas, to Regional Director of Personnel for General Services Administration (GSA) in Denver in less than 10 years.
In the latter position, he managed, through four subordinate supervisors, the functions of position classification, position management and pay administration; external recruitment and internal placement, including administration of the agency's Merit Promotion Plan; labor relations, including contract negotiations and day-to-day contract administration with three different labor organizations with exclusive recognition; employee relations, including performance management, conduct and discipline, and benefits administration; employee development and training; affirmative action, including special emphasis programs; and personnel action processing. After moving from GSA to the National Park Service (NPS) in 1985, Steve served as Chief of Personnel Operations for nearly nine years.
In addition to 25 years as a first-, second-, and third-line supervisor and program manager, Steve gained experience in every human resources function, as well as in equal employment opportunity (EEO). He also represented agency management in a wide variety of third-party settings, and worked effectively with top agency management and with supervisors and non-supervisory employees at all levels of the organization.
In 1993, Steve won a Congressional Fellowship sponsored by the American Political Science Association, spending from November of 1993 through October of 1994 working as a Legislative Assistant in the Washington, D.C., office of U.S. Senator Daniel Akaka of Hawaii. He spent the last 2 ½ years of his Federal career serving as a senior consultant to the NPS on the most complex third-party cases in employee relations and EEO. For the last four years, Steve has served as president of the board of Volunteers in Prevention (VIP), a registered Colorado non-profit organization that mentors at-risk youth.
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