| Comment Number: | OL-10501925 |
| Received: | 2/28/2005 1:51:14 PM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
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Comments:
The NSPS is idealistic, meaning I believe it has great concepts, but when it meets reality, it will be disasterous. In particular talking to Individual Pay for Performance. I've been in process improvement for over 8 years at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. I'm consider a Black Belt in the Lean Sigma processes. I have led teams over the 8 years and saved over $20million dollars. One thing that process improvement teaches everybody is that the processes/systems that employees work determine their behavior and performance not the employees themselves. This would be different if the employees where empowered to make changes to a particular process/system. But they are not empowered to make changes by themselves. It is done as a team effort across organizational boundries. Which in process improvement is exactly what we try to do is get everybody working as a team and make the changes together to improve a process/system. Again individuals aren't empowered to do this only being part of the team they can do this. Individual pay banding seems like a very anti team system. If interested, I can run a process improvement simulation (takes about an hour) to prove that individual pay banding will be a determent to the government. Team work is a powerful tool, lets not destroy it by putting in a system that will encourage something else. Thank you for listening.