Human Capital: Improved Implementation of Safeguards and an Action Plan to Address Employee Concerns Could Increase Employee Acceptance of the National Security Personnel System

Abstract

While DOD has taken some steps to implement internal safeguards to ensure that NSPS is fair, effective, and credible, in late 2008, GAO found that the implementation of three safeguards could be improved. First, DOD does not require a third party to analyze rating results for anomalies prior to finalizing ratings, and thus it does not have a process to determine whether ratings are nondiscriminatory before they are finalized. Without a predecisional analysis, employees may lack confidence in the fairness and credibility of NSPS. To address this finding, GAO recommended that DOD require predecisional demographic and other analysis; however, DOD did not concur, stating that apostdecisional analysis is more useful. GAO continues to believe this recommendation has merit.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2009
Accession Number
AD1176253

Entities

People

  • Brenda S. Farrell

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accountability
  • Business Administration
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • House Of Representatives
  • Human Resources
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Personnel
  • Money
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Security Personnel
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Business

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