| Comment Number: | OL-10509851 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 7:28:56 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:
Pay for performance, The gov't managers currently have the ability to pay their exceptional performers as well as discipline the sub standard performers. The problem is these managers are not real qualified/trained managers as the civilian world knows them. These managers simply do not know how to manage people or time, their boss normally micromanages them and that goes both directions up and down the chain of "command". The majority of the managers I have encounterd in the 6 years of employment have been appointed based on favoritism or nepotism. Not one of the people I have personally witnessed or even know of being promoted to a first level supervisor position has been appointed based on their merits and or training as a supervisor. Unfortunately, first level supervisors are the "introduction to management" at the federal level. There is very little doubt in my mind that the rest of the managers aquired their positions in the same manner. If you want to create a better environment that is easier to manage as NSPS claims it will do, create managment standards that break the current cycles. Make it impossible for the current managers to hire their friends and relatives. Create a third party hiring system that requires you to have the qualifications and training necessary for the job you are being interviewed for. Then hold the new managers accountable. Currently the managers are only held accountable for their boss's bad decisions, which makes them not want to make decisions at all. Basically, they are not currently accountable to anyone, except the person that appointed them to their current position, their boss. Getting better trained managers would allow few changes to the current Federal system and would allow it to function the way it was designed to, instead of by what it has evolved to because of corruption and favoritism. Maybe then the employees will have a chance for the current Federal system to be fair and equitable. This can be done without a complete expensive overhaul of the current system. This also requires no transition expenses. Other than hiring qualified managers and removing untrained overpaid old style antiquated autocratic "do it or I'll fire you" empire building style of old managers, there is no additional costs to the taxpayers, who will ultimately pay for the NSPS. This will also solve a myriad of other so called problems with the Federal system we currently use. The proposed NSPS system will only make the current bad situation worse. It will give these poor managers unlimited power. We have all heard this before, "This new system will be better". We have all had to bear the worst of our leaders bad decisions, but under NSPS, if you question any bad decision your boss makes you will be looking for a new job. Maybe not because you were fired but because you have not had a pay raise in the last few years or you were forced to work a graveyard shift for not going along with their routinely bad decisions and were unable to pay the high costs of child care for that shift, or both, Either way it will now be totally up to your supervisor what your future holds. If you are not on his or her favorites list the future is grim. The sad part about all of this is it's just one aspect of NSPS. I can't even begin to discuss the rest. There is not enough time in a day.