CORRECTION TO PRESIDENTAL MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES MEMORANDUM OF JULY 27, 1976

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00062A000200040003-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 9, 1976
• Content Type: MF

Approved Fcif tbI2W' ME.CQ7P RIDPIZ-9 52Ic 0'92000400
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
On file OMB release instructions apply.
August 9, 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE
THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
THE SECRETARY OF LABOR
THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,
AND WELFARE
THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT
THE SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION
THE DIRECTOR, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY,/
THE ADMINISTRATOR OF GENERAL SERVICES
THE ADMINISTRATOR, NATIONAL AERONAUTICS.
AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
THE CHAIRMAN, CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
CHE ADMINISTRATOR, SMALL BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION
THE ADMINISTRATOR OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
THE ADMINISTRATOR, ENERGY, RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
THE ADMINISTRATOR, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
THE ADMINISTRATOR, FEDERAL. ENERGY
ADMINISTRATION
SUBJECT: Correction to Presidential Management Initiatives Memorandum
of July 27, 1976
Attached is a revised Section 5, Personnel Management, to the July 27, 1976
memorandum signed by James T. Lynn, Director, concerning Presidential
Management Initiatives. Please insert this revision to Section 5 in the proper
place within the memorandum.
Approved For Release 2002/10/10 : CIA-RDP79M00062AO00200040003-5
 Approved For Release 2002/10/10 : CIA-RDP79M00062AO00200040003-5
5. PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
Executive Selection and Development - Identification and training of personnel
having executive promise, and development of incumbent executives.
Work Force Quali - Evaluation of employee programs which affect overall
work _force quality, specifically: recruitment, employee performance
evaluation, career advancement, managerial incentives and training.
Position and Classification .Management - Systematic reexamination of
internal systems, and appropriate corrective action ' to restrain grade
escalation and to eliminate duplication of work or under-utilization of
personnel.
Productivity Measurement - Improvement of productivity measurement and
extension of such measurements to functions not presently covered, as a means
of judging both managerial and individual staff performance and of improving
productivity.
Employment Ceilings - Adherence to Presidential employment ceilings and
avoidance of congressionally mandated minimum employment levels.
A. Agencies should establish and improve comprehensive selection and
development- systems, under Executive Manpower Resources Boards,
providing:
Selection processes which ensure that, when management
vacancies occur, they are filled carefully with the best qualified
individuals available.
- Identification of mid-career employees with the greatest
managerial potential, and provision of developmental experience
to prepare them for future responsibilities.
- Planned training and other developmental opportunities designed
to focus incumbent managers' attention on their managerial
responsibilities and to enhance their abilities.
B. Each agency, by September 3, should identify (or establish) one executive
selection and development system to serve as a model for stimulating the
establishment of comparable systems in all major organizational
components by the end of FY 1977.
C. As an immediate part of this long-range and continuing effort, agencies
should, by September 21, implement an operational "high potential"
identification system and prepare individual development plans for a small
number of people with especially high potential.
Approved For Release 2002/10/10 : Cl RDP79M00062AO00200040003-5
 Approved For Release 2002/10/10 : CIA-RDP79M00062A000200040003-5
i ~. % Oren ies should, by August 23, begin a year-long program of evaluation of
employee programs in order to identify priority ways of improving overall
work force quality. These evaluations will cover the quality of
recruitment, the employee performance evaluation process, career
advancement, managerial incentives, and training programs.
E. Agencies should, by September 3, begin a year-long program for the
careful, systematic reexamination of internal position management and
classification systems called for in the President's May 27 memorandum,
in accordance with CSC instructions issued July 2.
OMB and CSC may specify special reviews or instructions on a selective
basis, in agencies where there seem to be excessive problems of
overgrading, duplication of work, or tinder util izati on of personnel
resources.
F. Agencies should institute a program to refine existing productivity
measurements and extend them to a substantial number of functions not
now covered. They should include a progress report on this program as
part of their FY 1978 budget submission. General guidance and assistance
will be provided by the Bureau of . Labor Statistics and the National Center
for Productivity and Quality of Working Life.
Agencies should increase the applied use of productivity measures in
supporting staffing and budget requirements and for purposes of
management evaluation and control. A government-wide goal of two
percent improvement in productivity, in the functions currently measured,
will be set between now and the end of FY 1978. Each agency should
include projected improvements in its calculations for its FY 1978 budget
request.
G. Heads of agencies should take a personal interest in ensuring that
Presidential employment ceilings for both full-time permanent and total
employment are not exceeded.
H. Agencies should evaluate their current internal systems for administering
personnel ceilings to look for better ways of ensuring compliance with
those ceilings and providing flexibility for intra-agency ceiling
reallocation. A report on this evaluation should be submitted to OMB by
September 21.
Approved For Release 2002/10/10 : CIA-RDP79M00062A000200040003-5
 Approved `For Release 2002/10/10: CIA-RDP79M00062AO00200040003-5
EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT
Routing Slip
2i DDCI
3 D/DCI/IC
4 DDS&T
51 DDI
12 Compt
DDA
15 DTR
ACTIUTdIINFO _[__DATE INITI,A
ExecutivejSecrctcsry
13---A a g -6..
Date
Approved For Release 2002/10/10,: CIA-
P79 M 00062AO00200040003-5