American forces press service (April 28, 2006): Deputy Defense Secretary signs new Personnel System into effect.WASHINGTON -- Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England signed a directive to implement the new National Security Personnel System during a roll-out ceremony here today. "Today is a milestone event," England said during the Pentagon Pentagon Huge five-sided building (1941–43) in Arlington, Va., that is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Designed by George Edwin Bergstrom, it was, on its completion, the world's largest office building, covering 34 acres (14 hectares) and offering ceremony. "After two and a half years of very hard work, the Department of Defense is initiating the human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. phase of the National Security Personnel System." About 11,000 Defense Department civilian employees from 12 DoD organizations will be part of the initial "Spiral 1.1" phase-in process of the new system. England said the old civilian personnel system, which has been in place for 50 years, was not capable of keeping pace with the department's needs. "As our military forces are reoriented to better address a changing landscape, the civilian workforce too needs to become more agile, adaptable a·dapt·a·ble adj. Capable of adapting or of being adapted. a·dapt  a·bil , and fully integrated with the efforts of our military
forces," he said.
Employees will be converted to pay bands that replace the general schedule and will be given new results-focused performance plans that are clearly linked to their organization's mission and strategic goals, defense officials said. The performance appraisal Performance appraisal, also known as employee appraisal, is a method by which the performance of an employee is evaluated (generally in terms of quality, quantity, cost and time). cycle for Spiral 1.1 employees begins April 30 and ends October 31. These employees will receive their first performance pay increases in January 2007. In addition, employees performing satisfactorily will receive an increase equivalent to the general pay and locality 1. locality - In sequential architectures programs tend to access data that has been accessed recently (temporal locality) or that is at an address near recently referenced data (spatial locality). This is the basis for the speed-up obtained with a cache memory. 2. increase received by general schedule employees in January 2007, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a DoD press release. England said he understood if some civilian employees had a little anxiety about the conversion, but he stressed that supervisors have been given a lot of training to help make sure people are comfortable with the new system. "This is not a fire-and-forget effort," he said. Classroom and Web-based training covering the basics of NSPS NSPS National Security Personnel System (US government) NSPS New Source Performance Standard NSPS National Society of Professional Surveyors NSPS National Suicide Prevention Strategy (Australia) , with special emphasis on performance management, has been in high gear for employees over the last several months, according to a DoD press release. This is a critical time for the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. because the current security context is much more varied and uncertain than at any time in the past, England said, and to meet today's challenges the Department of Defense needs the right people in the right places, working in the right ways. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "People are our most valuable resource, and today we are improving the ability of the department's people to be successful," he concluded. |
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