Report to the Secretary of Defense -- Enhancing the Department's Management Capabilities: "Excellence in Supervision"

Abstract

This report represents the findings and recommendations of a Defense Business Board Task Group charged with investigating ways to apply best business practices from the private sector to the important objective of improving the capabilities of the DoD's civilian supervisors (Senior Executive Service (SES) and General Schedule (GS)) in effectively managing their people. The report is organized around four themes, with related principal recommendations: (1) Measure the effectiveness of leaders in supervising their people, specifically, develop and implement an explicit approach to measuring supervisory capabilities, and include a robust evaluation of supervisory excellence in the annual performance evaluations of SES and GS 12-15 executives with supervisory responsibilities; (2) Train supervisors in supervisory skills, specifically, develop and expand supervisory training and management development opportunities in the Civilian Leader Development Programs for GS 12-15 aspiring to greater supervisory responsibilities within DoD, offer or require training in people and performance management to the those SES executives whose supervisory skills are identified in the annual assessment of individual SES capabilities as needing improvement, and elevate the importance of civilian training in DoD by proactively managing the careers and training of those with high potential for advancement rather than relying on a self-nominating process; (3) Reward supervisors for supervisory excellence by making excellence in managing people a requirement for promotion to higher level positions with an important supervisory component, and requiring supervisory excellence for SES executives to be selected for Enterprise Positions and interagency assignments; and (4) Organize to enhance excellence in supervision, specifically, establish offices within the Office of the Secretary of Defense to centrally manage SES and GS executives and DoD Enterprise Positions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA526145

Entities

People

  • Frederic W. Cook
  • John Goodman
  • Lon Levin
  • Madelyn Jennings
  • Pat Gross
  • Phil Odeen

Organizations

  • Defense Business Board

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Administrative Personnel
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Equal Employment Opportunity
  • Governments
  • Human Resources
  • Management Personnel
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Performance Appraisals
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Security Personnel
  • Training

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.