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CIA-RDP80-01826R000700140011-2
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RIPPUB
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3
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December 9, 2016
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August 18, 2000
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11
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March 15, 1956
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MIN
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-Approved For Release 2001'Td' b+ $,pP80-01U26R000700140011-2 VOW, r ES CONFIDENTIAL OF THE 20th Meeting, Thursday, 15 March 1956, 4ISOO p.m. DCI Conference Room, Administration Building Present: Lyman D. Kirkpatrick, IG, Acting Chairman 25X1A9a C/PPCS/DDP, Alt, for DD/P, Member 9 D/OC, Member 25X1 A9a SA/DDI/AD9 Alt, for DD/I9 Member 25X1A9a AD/TR9 Alt, for DTR9 Member D/Pers9 Alto for D/Pers9 Member Lawrence K. White, DD/S, Member 25X1A9a 1, The minutes of the 19th-meeting of the CIA Career Council were approved as distributed. 2, The Council considered the Staff Study on "Incentive and Honor Awards " dated 7 March 1956, together with the ammendment, same subject, 25X1 A9a dated 14 March 1956, ore pared by the Special Task Force which consisted of Messrs. represented the Task Force in presenting the salient features of the proposal. Graphic Aids showing the past and proposed relations of the Incentive Awards Program and the Honor Awards Program and medals and certificates applicable to each were available. 3.. P.L. 763, title 3 "Government Employees !'Incentive Awards Act" which became effective in November 1954, and-the-interpretation,, definitions and procedures (No. 1177) made, according to law9 by the Civil Service Commissionf, occasion the re=evaluation of these two pros- grams within the Agency. The Task Force addressed itself to three principal problems. a. The confusion we now have in policy and administration in the whole field of recognition of the individual. DOCUMENT NO. N?0 CHANGE kN CLASS. ^ by The basic philosophy with respect to personal recognition. ^ DECLASSIFIED CLASS. CHANGED T01 TS S e o .+. y _ - ` NEXT REVIEW DATES -~- r Release 2001/04/05 :CIA-RDP80-01826R0t"4'I NR 70.2 AUTHi y~p 1 Z'~t'C' DATE 14V_Q 1EIIEVIEWER:_018995 Approved For ease 2001/04/05: CIA-RDP80- 1W- 26R000700140011-2 CONFIDEfi~ o. What to do with cash as a factor in this field. tc. The conclusions and recommendations of the staff study, which were approved by-the Career Council, elaborate on the three problems listed above and they are therefore only summarized below. a. The entire program was renamed the Incentive Awards Program under the jurisdiction. of the DDSO It consists of an Honor Awards element under the supervision of the Director of Personnel, and a Suggestion Awards element under the supervision of the Chief, Management Staff. bo The Incentive Awards Committee was renamed the Suggestion Awards Committee, c,, The responsibility for awards for meritorious service and. performance was transferred from the former Incentive Awards Committee to the Honor Awards Board, do A Certificate of Merit carrying a flat, unvarying fee of $10.00 was established, to rank after the present Intelligence Medal of Merit. e~, Aside from the $100.00 fee accompanying the Certificate of Merit, no money would be paid for superior performance. The Certificate of Merit would be used primarily to recognize the performance or service of persons in grades GS-10 and below. f. Cash will be paid for suggestions depending on the value of the estimated savings or improvement according to government- wide standards established by the Civil Service Commission? g, As a matter of policy, exception to which would be made only by the DCI, no cash would be paid to persons in grades GS-15 and above for an improvement suggestion. h. No member of the Suggestion Awards Staff, Records Manage- ment Staff, or Organization and Methods Staff would be eligible for any award for an improvement suggestion., hThe Acting Director of Central Intelligence approved the Staff Study, recommendations and conclusions of which are summarized above, on 31 March] 5. It was agreed that the Fitness Report Handbook which was about to go out of print, would be reprinted and distributed to any supervisor who wished to retain a desk copy, , . r?1f\.. Approved For Release 2001/04/05: CIA-RDP80-01 0011-2 Approved For Release 2001/04/05: CIA-RDP80-01826R000700140011-2 1qW 1PJ'FJPENTIAL 6. It was agreed that the memorandum "Aids to Personnel Management" would be placed on the Agenda of the Council and that the Council would consider the revision of "Individual Career Planning" at its next meeting. 7. The Council adjourned at 4155 porn. 25X1A9a Executi re Secretary CIA Career Council CONFIDENTIAL Approved For Release 2001/04/05: CIA-RDP80-01826R000700140011-2