| Comment Number: | OL-10507851 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 3:32:56 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 performance management system breaks no new ground. Except for the elimination of employee procedural safeguards, the proposed system repeats many of the current system’s themes, such as providing on-going employee feedback regarding performance, and consistent and continual acknowledgment and reward of high performance and good conduct. Federal agencies have been struggling to attain credible performance systems for decades. Nothing in this proposal suggests that DoD will be able to avoid the credibility problems that have plagued federal employers. These problems are even more pronounced in view of the proposal to link employee pay more closely to their performance ratings.