| Comment Number: | OL-10502369 |
| Received: | 3/1/2005 6:29:54 PM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
| No Attachments |
Comments:
para. 9901.311: Covers subparagraphs which address performance appraisal and performance-based pay. NOTE: The whole premise for NSPS is that by making employees compete with each other for pay raises and retention, DoD will somehow come out the winner. BAD ASSUMPTION! If employees are competing, and they surely will be under NSPS, then teamwork will cease. Employees will hoard knowledge, hoping to perform better than their peers. Workplace violence may result when some feel wronged by this wrong new system. Employees who are pals with the boss will receive the best raises and promotions. This is commonplace today, it's basic human nature, and NSPS won't change it. Performance-based pay systems might work in industry, where the objective is profit at the expense of everything else, but it won't work in the DoD. NSPS is a bad idea and needs to be terminated.