| Comment Number: | OL-10511793 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 5:22:49 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:
To transform the way DOD achieves its mission by the National Security Personnel System there needs to be a transformation of its managers/supervisers. I have 30 years of Federal Service with three years as a Wage Grade (WG)and twentythree years as a General Schedule (GS). Leaders should first be capable and qualified to motivate, instruct, evaluate, balance multiple tasks and to be impartial and fair in their interaction with employees. I have been exposed to enough Federal Managers and Supervisors to state that many lack the previous referenced qualifications. The National Security Personnel System provides some Federal Employees the opportunity to move through these pay bands just like in the current system where awards are given and quality step increases provided to those with a friend/influence in management. I have witnessed abuses, as qualified/gifted employees not rewarded/recognized because of no connection or it would be too much work to write the employee up for an award (conversely it was too much work to have a poor performing employee removed from servce). Management has told employees in the current system "it is your job" while their work has been outstanding. An example of poor management occurred at the shipyard where a mechanic rewired Pri-Fly on an aircraft carrier without a wiring plan, there was none available for him. Management did not reward or recognize this mechanic. The Federal Government believes this National Security Personnel System will correct all problems. The government should have recognized the problems in the Civil Service System and worked to rid/correct them. The abuses of the past, the short commings will continue; therefore the Federal Employee will continue to be short changed (unless of course you have a connection in management which means those employee will make out better than in Civil Service). I recommend you work to improve the current system with emphasis on the selection, retention, training of qualified management and the removal of the unqualified.