| Comment Number: | OL-10502499 |
| Received: | 3/2/2005 10:31:00 AM |
| 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:
Background: Implementation of NSPS for the Excepted Service employees of the Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) is not expected to be activated until some time beyond January 2006, the month I will complete my Government Service career. My current work load, and my forecast of my work load for the rest of this year, is such that more detailed review of the NSPS is below my work list cutoff line. With those insights, I do wish to provide one general view, for your consideration, based on my 15 years as a Government Service, first-level supervisor. My intent in so doing is to; hopefully, add additional weight in favor of making this a great system. NSPS appears to have money tied to a person's evaluation. That is acceptable provided there are sufficient funds to, ideally, pay every person in the system should each truly desire a top evaluation. The Government system we need is one in which each person is evaluated independently of every other person in the system. Such a system will be the most positively effective way to encourage each person to excel. Competition, in the extreme, will fully erode any vestige of team work. If NSPS would eventually have this fund-people unbalance, it would tend to force the system's supervisory personnel to not give all of their people their true evaluation. The negative consequences are obvious. Thank you for listening, and good fortune with this new system.