Gina Medsker

Contact Information

Last Name

Medsker

First Name

Gina

Employee Title

Program Manager

Program Area

SHCM

Program Area (fullText)

Strategic Human Capital Management

Telephone

(703) 706-5639

Biography/Blurb

Gina Medsker has over eighteen years of experience in human capital and human resources management research and consulting. Her principal areas of expertise are in strategic human capital management, program evaluation, workforce planning, compensation and reward systems, and survey development and analysis.

As part of project work for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Dr. Medsker helped review strategic human capital plans and workforce plans that 16 agencies delivered to OPM and made recommendations for improving them. She advised OPM's Human Capital Program on metrics, target setting, and measurement methods for assessing its performance for the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART). She also directed a project to assist OPM with development of the Human Capital Assessment and Accountability Framework (HCAAF) metrics. This involved reviewing agencies' human capital deliverables, such as their staffing and competency gap reports, time to hire data, SES performance management data, Performance Appraisal Assessment Tool (PAAT) ratings, and succession plans; examining alternative metrics and refining the final metrics package based on agencies' input and statistical reliability and validity analyses; developing tools agencies are using to report their HCAAF metric results to improve the consistency and accuracy of data; and training OPM's accountability staff, OPM's human capital officers, and human capital representatives from over 50 Federal agencies on the new HCAAF metrics package. As part of her work, she has reviewed and analyzed a wide variety of human capital metrics from across the Federal government.

Dr. Medsker has also directed the independent evaluation of OPM's Human Capital Program. This has involved examining the relationship of agencies' use of Human Capital Program products and services to agencies' progress on human capital management initiatives, as well as the elationships between agencies' progress on those initiatives and their FHCS results to their organizational performance (i.e., Performance and Accountability Report, PART, and American Customer Satisfaction Index results as measures of organizational performance). Through the sophisticated statistical analyses HumRRO has performed in this independent evaluation, we have found strong support for the importance of the relationship between human capital management and organizational performance.

Dr. Medsker has also conducted workforce planning and competency assessment projects for the Defense Logistics Agency, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in the Department of Transportation, and the former Immigration and Naturalization Service and Department of Treasury law enforcement population. In addition, she directed a project that tracked how Army officers' attitudes, intentions, demographics, and career histories were related to organizational commitment and attrition from the Army. Projects she has directed have used sophisticated modeling and longitudinal analysis techniques to analyze career patterns and attrition projections.

Dr. Medsker has an M.B.A. in human resources from the University of Kansas and Ph.D. in human resources and organizational behavior from Purdue University. She has published in several professional journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, and Journal of Management. She has presented at many professional conferences, including the Excellence in Government, International Personnel Management Association-HR, Academy of Management, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and American Society for Training and Development conferences.

History

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