Army
Performance Excellence Award: The Army Performance
Excellence Award (APEA) Program was approved by Acting Secretary of the Army,
the Honorable Brownlee, in August 2003, as the Army Capstone's award program
for organizational performance excellence. The program recognizes
organizations for their overall performance and improvement efforts as well
as serves as a vehicle for sharing best ideas and techniques across the Army.
2004 marks the initial year for this program.
President's Quality Award Program: The
President's Quality Award Program, administered by the Office of Personnel Management,
recognizes federal organizations that have documented high-performance management systems
and approaches.
Plain
Language Award: Plain Language Award recognizes federal employees who write
regulations, letters, and other government documents in plain language that anyone can
understand. The National Partnership for Reinventing Government administers this award.
The
Secretary of Defense Productivity Excellence Award: The Department of Defense established the Secretary of Defense Productivity
Excellence Award in 1983 to recognize individuals and small groups who made substantial
improvements in the quality and productivity of Defense operations through suggestions,
special acts, or other management improvement initiatives. · The contributions of the
recipients must be adopted and employed, with a verified savings of $1 million dollars
over a 12 month period.
Chief of Staff, Army Installation
Incentive Award Program: This award is part of the Army Communities of
Excellence (ACOE) program. The ACOE program is a commander's process which is broad
enough to accommodate a variety of approaches that can be tailored to any organization,
command or installation. Leaders and managers take advantage of the entrepreneurial genius
of the people within the community to develop better ways of helping people and getting
work done. It is a program which encourages ideas and initiatives to float upward.
Army
Suggestion Program: The Army Suggestion Program (ASP) is an incentive program that encourages soldiers and civilians
within the Department of the Army to submit ideas that, if adopted, will result in
increased efficiencies and reduced costs.
State Quality Award Programs:
Several states throughout the country have instituted state-wide quality award programs of
their own for which Army and other federal government organizations may be eligible to
apply. Army organizations are strongly encouraged to seek out opportunities to compete for
performance excellence initiatives available within their states.
The Innovations in American Government Award:
This awards program of the Ford Foundation
and Harvard University provides cash awards to innovative programs of state, local, and
federal organizations. This award is administered by the John F. Kennedy School of
Government in partnership with the Council for Excellence in Government. The Innovations
in American Government awards are intended to draw attention to exemplary in government
problem-solving and to amplify the voices of public innovators in communicating their
practices. In addition, the Kennedy School develops instructional materials based on the
contributions of award-winning innovations to the art of creative problem-solving in the
public sector.
Arthur S. Flemming Awards:
Established by the Downtown Jaycees in 1948, the Flemming
Awards honor outstanding Federal employees. Nominees may include any career Federal
employee, who has no more than fifteen years of government service. Twelve separate awards
will be made in three categories - scientific, administrative, and applied science.
David Packard Excellence in
Acquisition Award: The David Packard
Excellence in Acquisition Award is established to recognize DoD civilian and/or military
organizations, groups, or teams, who have made highly significant contributions which
demonstrated exemplary innovation and best acquisition practices. These are multiple
awards reflecting achievements that exemplify goals and objectives established for
furthering life cycle cost reduction and/or acquisition excellence in DoD. Other acquisition awards can be found on
the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition & Technology) website.
Public Service
Excellence Award: The awards program was initiated by Public Employees Roundtable, a
non-profit, non-partisan coalition of 39 management and professional associations
representing some 1 million public employees and retirees. The mission of the Roundtable
is to educate Americans about the quality of people in government and the value of the
services they provide, to improve excellence and esprit de corps among public employees,
and to encourage interest in public service careers.
RIT/USA Today
Quality Cup: The RIT/USA TODAY Quality Cup Competition recognizes teams who make
significant contributions to the improvement of quality in their organization. The
competition is conducted as a cooperative academic-industry effort between the College of
Business, Rochester Institute of Technology and USA TODAY.
Governor’s Award
for Performance Excellence Award's Program (New Jersey): The program pursues
this objective by offering the Governor’s Award for Performance Excellence at three
levels (Gold, Silver and Bronze), and the Governor’s Area of Excellence awards
(names and eligibility vary depending on the three sets of criteria, business, education
and health care. Applicants apply for the Governor’s Award for Performance
Excellence or one of the Areas of Excellence Awards (not in education). The
Governor’s Performance Excellence criteria examine the applicant’s entire
organizational process. The criteria used for the Governor’s Awards for Performance
Excellence are identical to those used by the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
AQP's National Team Excellence Award:
This award is presented annually to teams which most clearly and
effectively demonstrate the principles and techniques of improving quality through
participation. Team video entries are first judged in preliminary rounds, from which
top-scoring teams advance to the national competition at the Annual Spring Conference.
This process, promotes business effectiveness through team-based management, provides
national and international recognition, and encourages individuals, teams and
organizations to excel in quality through participation practices.
