# James Thompson Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. His research sits at the intersection of organizational reform, civil service systems, and public sector HRM. Prior to his PhD, Thompson worked in city and county government in New York State, giving him a practitioner background. **Online **: https://cuppa.uic.edu/profiles/thompson-james/ **Organization**: [[University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)]] **Location**: Chicago, Michigan, USA --- ## Entries ### US Intelligence Community (IC) HR Model James R. Thompson co-authored a 2009 report for the [[IBM Center for The Business of Government]] examining the "federated" human resource management model established by the US Intelligence Community (IC). This framework was developed following the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to balance community integration with the needs of individual agencies. The report explains how the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) employed four strategic "levers" to drive collaboration across 17 diverse components: - **Governance**: Establishing a common HRM policy framework and community directives. - **Personnel**: Implementing the Joint Duty program and collaborative recruitment. - **Compensation**: Creating the National Intelligence Civilian Compensation Program (NICCP) featuring pay-for-performance and paybanding. - **Training**: Developing a community-wide curriculum and university system. The authors conclude that the IC model provides a blueprint for broader civil service reform. It demonstrates how a centralized framework can achieve community-wide cohesion while maintaining necessary agency-level flexibility.