DCI PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05T00644R000601730024-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2009
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: December 3, 1979
• Content Type: MISC

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DCI Personnel Management Philosophy
1. Must motivate personnel to support Agency-wide goals (or at least as
broad a set of goals as they can reasonably comprehend).
- Vice sub-optimizing their actions too low
- Techniques
-- Rotational assignments of managerial types
-- Promotion system that has some reward for broader
contributions
2. Morale is job satisfaction
Techniques
-- Provide a good product
-- Good leadership, e.g, keeping subordinates informed,
recognition in sight of peers for good performance, etc.
-- Good counseling to engender reasonable expectations
3. Fairness and the appearance of fairness are essential
- Techniques
-- Impartial selection process for promotions
-- Careful supervision and control of promotion flow,
vacancy filling, training courses and other opportunities
-- Visibility of assignment, promotion, grievance, vacancy-
filling procedures
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4. Individual employee must be made to feel the organization is interested
in him
- Techniques
-- Good leadership
-- Good counseling
5. Innovative thinking must be encouraged
Techniques
-- Promotion system that does not discourage mavericks
-- Rotational assignments that broaden outlooks and hence
receptivity to different ideas
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