DOD CIVILIAN PERSONNEL: Comprehensive Strategic Workforce Plans Needed
Abstract
During its downsizing in the early 1990s, the Department of Defense (DOD) did not focus on strategically reshaping its civilian workforce. GAO was asked to address DODs efforts to strategically plan for its future civilian workforce at the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the military services headquarters, and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). Specifically, GAO determined: (1) the extent to which civilian strategic workforce plans have been developed and implemented to address future civilian workforce requirements, and (2) the major challenges affecting the development and implementation of these plans. GAO recommends that DOD and the components include certain key elements in their civilian strategic workforce plans to guide their human capital efforts. DOD concurred with one of our recommendations, and partiallyconcurred with two others because it believes that the department has undertaken analyses of critical skills gaps and are using strategies and personnel flexibilities to fill identified skills gaps. We cannot verify DODs statement because DOD was unable to provide the gap analyses. In addition, we found that the strategies being used by the department have not been derived from analyses of gaps between the current and future critical skills and competencies needed by the workforce.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- AD1169890
Entities
People
- Alissa Czyz
- Cheryl Weissman
- Derek B. Stewart
- Janine Cantin
- Jeanett H. Reid
- Jose Watkins
- Sandra F. Bell
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office