ADDITION TO THE NEW FITNESS REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01826R000700090004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 11, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 3, 1955
• Content Type: MEMO

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? Chairman, CIA Career Council
FROM : Director of Training
suBJEcT: Addition to the New Fitness Report
DATE: :roc 195S
1. I do not concur in Change No. 2, as indicated in the attached document.
2. The Fitness Report pertains totally and exclusively to the performance
of the individual on the job to which he is assigned. If, at the time he is
completing the Fitness Report, the supervisor's thinking is contaminated with
considerations pertaining to the need for the job, both aspects will suffer.
Past experience with fitness reporting has indicated that objectivity and
fairness of reporting are difficult even under the most ideal circumstances.
To introduce deliberately a consideration of this sort would probably give in-
accurate information on the need for current jobs and tend also to obscure the
individualts actual performance record. If the job were marginal, supervisors
might be induced to protect the man by inflating his performance. On the other
hand, if the performance were marginal, the supervisor might be more induced to
declare the job unnecessary. The interaction of these factors is obviously
complex and subject to many unknown hazards.
3. If it is desirable to determine the need for certain current jobs, it
would seem that other, more appropriate, methods could be devised.
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MATTHEW BAIRD
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