Personally, I do not know how anyone working at DHS can be cheerful and productive, considering the way Congress is treating the department. The internal problems probably are more manageable than the external ones! Let’s be supportive of FEMA and the other folks doing their best.
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DHS tackles endless morale problems with seemingly endless studies
There’s really no excuse for the department expending finite resources on multiple studies, some at the same time, to tell the department pretty much what everyone has concluded: that there are four to five things that need to be done for morale,” said Chris Cummiskey, who left DHS in November after serving as its third-highest-ranking official. “You don’t need $2 million worth of studies to figure that out.”
Cummiskey added that DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson“understands this and is focused on delivering meaningful results for DHS employees.”
Recovery Diva 
When James Lee Witt took over FEMA in the spring of 1993, FEMA employee morale was at rock bottom and the agency was known as an ineffective turkey farm. Witt spoke with many rank-and-file employees face-to-face (with no bosses present) and then redesigned FEMA. He also put his mark of leadership on the place. The redesign came within six or seven months from Witt’s arrival, and within a year or so FEMA was considered to be one of the best places to work in government as well as one of the most effective. Maybe they should phone up James Lee and ask him how he did it. – Leo Bosner, Retired FEMA Employee