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1 NNSA's Strategic Documents and Culture Change
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... _ga=1.83182294.1320535883.1415285934. 2 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the National Academy of Public Administration, 2018, Report 2 on Tracking and Assessing Governance and Management Reform in the Nuclear Security Enterprise, Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press.
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... Those documents emphasize in several places that they pertain to the entire enterprise, and they refer to the aspiration of being a single team. For example, the Governance and Management Framework "Purpose" includes the statement that the document "encompasses the federal headquarters and field office staff, our partner laboratory, plant and site personnel, and the partners' corporate parents." Overall, the documents' language regarding culture (including values and behaviors)
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... While, in general, the documents enjoy strong stakeholder support, discussion group participants pointed out that the documents are at a very high level, and they are eager to learn how the documents will be operationalized. In other words, they want to understand how these documents affect their organization, themselves, and their specific jobs; they view having office leadership translate the documents into goals and objectives for their specific office as a necessary next step.
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... Notable examples of those steps are  Incorporating messages from the strategic documents into town hall meetings at the sites, and other interactions and communications with members of the enterprise.  Disseminating a monthly governance and management newsletter, with each issue focusing on a specific management issue (such as risk management)
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... 10 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the National Academy of Public Administration, 2018, Report 2 on Tracking and Assessing Governance and Management Reform in the Nuclear Security Enterprise, Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press, pp.
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