| Comment Number: | OL-10506429 |
| Received: | 3/11/2005 3:11:26 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:
If NSPS implementation is done right, and its rewards and penalties are applied to executive management as well as labor, it could be the best thing to ever happen at my DoD agency. My two decades of watching executive management fumble away opportunities to accomplish our mission more efficiently and effectively through indifference, incompetence and indiscretion have led me to believe that cleaning out the corner offices (or threatening to) could improve things tremendously. Conversely, if NSPS implementation is done wrong, and its rewards and penalties are applied only to labor, it will be the worst thing to ever happen at my DoD agency. Having seen what executive management has gotten away with when they did not have the "freedom to manage", I tremble when I think of what they could do with that freedom. I for one do not look forward to "Topless Tuesdays" and "Full-Tank for the Boss Fridays". Who will be monitoring executive management's implementation of NSPS, and what kind of guarantees will the workforce have that this is more than just an attempt to break the morale (and the union) of DoD civilian employees?