Civilian Workforce Planning in the Department of Defense. Different Levels, Different Roles

Abstract

In response to more than a decade of downsizing and restructuring, the Department of Defense (DoD) is engaged in a human-resources strategic planning effort to address resulting imbalances in both skills and experience levels in many parts of DoD. The current human-resources strategic plan addresses the need to provide management systems and tools to support total workforce planning and informed decisionmaking (U.S. Department of Defense, 2003b). Attention to Department-wide civilian workforce planning stems in part from the President's Management Agenda of 2001 and the continuing assessments of Department-level progress on workforce planning. DoD civilian workforce-planning efforts are complicated and, at the same time, made more important by the implementation of the National Security Personnel System (NSPS), slated to begin in 2006. The NSPS will replace the traditional federal civil service personnel management system within DoD, providing DoD managers with more management flexibility.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA449266

Entities

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  • Christine Eibner
  • Edward G. Keating
  • Susan M. Gates

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  • RAND Corporation

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  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

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  • Management Personnel
  • Marine Transportation
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Organizational Structure
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  • Systems Engineering

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