Article archive / July 1, 2014
Originally published: . Volume 5, No. 11. Source pages: 5.
“A corrosive culture has led to personnel problems across the Department that are seriously impacting morale and by extension, the timeliness of health care,” a new White House report released Friday said. The report was written by Rob Nabors, the president's deputy chief of staff.
“The problems inherent within an agency with an extensive field structure are exacerbated by poor management and communication structures, distrust between some VA employees and management, a history of retaliation toward employees raising issues, and a lack of accountability across all grade levels,” wrote the author.
He also wrote, “There is a tendency to transfer problems rather than solve problems,” the report found. “This is in part due to the difficulty of hiring and firing in the federal government.”
The VA is the largest employer of psychologists in the country.
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