| Comment Number: | OL-10509737 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 5:29:14 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:
As a retired military officer who has held MOS for Personnel Mgmt, as a holder of a Master's Degree in Personnel Mgmt, and having been in the Civil Service (FERS) for approximately 17+ years, I have VERY serious concerns about the myopic view of NSPS. The program gives little or no credit to the professional work force, does not recognize the contributions of the work force, and is simplistic in its belief that management is fair and unbiased enough to manage the work force properly. That might be true in a smaller organization, but political appointees, technical experts who are promoted to their levels of incompetence in management position, and managers who cannot possibly comprehend the multitude of complex regulations imposed on them have demonstrated to me over the past 40+ years that they cannot be fair in hiring, promoting, and taking other personnel actions without employee safeguards. The perks given to management to dispense are given to favored employees, not to the deserving. NSPS offers little or no protection to the deserving and the innocent employee. The underlying concept of NSPS has its merit, but the human element in the managerial implementation of NSPS is grossly flawed. This NSPS promises to bring the demise of the work force as a coherant body which will resort to internal strife and personal concern to get whatever can be obtained in the way of promotions, pay and perks to be doled out by managers. The focus on self will obviate the focus on mission to the detriment of our nation and Homeland Security. NSPS does not have the checks and balances that is the Hallmark of the American tradition; NSPS requires greater study and review -- it is too much a one-way street to gamble the lives, careers, and the total way of life for our country. There is no driving rush to implement NSPS -- take the time and effort to do it right if reforms are to be instituted.