| Comment Number: | OL-10511681 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 4:44:59 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:
Subpart D - Performance management. NSPS proposes to include flexibility to modify, amend, and change performance and behavioral expectations for employees on a continual basis during the year??? Due to mission and decreased resources, it is difficult for managers now to have ample time to discuss performance with employees at midyear and annually. It is very doubtful that managers will have the time to perform all these new duties and support the soldier in the field at the same time. NSPS would make behavior and other performance critieria the highest priority over the lives of our Armed Forces. Also, behavior, teamwork, etc. are already criteria that is evaluated within our appraisals by our peers and managers. In lieu of making the mission the employee's most important objective, employees now will be concerned about constantly behaving properly and basically will agree with anything a manager says in order not to get a poor rating at the end of the year. How is this system flexible, and how does it even take into consideration the individuality and innovative ideas of employees that will be stifled because an employee will have to perform as a manager directs without question or suggestions just to save his/her job?