HUMAN RESOURCES STUDY GROUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000800070002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT: Human Resources Study Group
25X1A
problems with the group may be summed up as
1. The study is a defensive reaction on
the part of management and was initiated too
quickly.
2. The study assumes that there is a
youth project and is not a scientific inquiry to
determine if such a problem exists.
3. The study should survey a broad
spectrum of Agency employees- -young, middle-
aged, and old; juniors, middle managers and
senior executives.
4. PSS is not really consulting with the
Directorate representatives. It wants a
rubber stamp group.
5. The costs of a year-long study have
not been properly considered- -particularly if
the study is of youth only and not the entire
population.
6. The study runs the danger of promoting
"great expectations"--it may promise change
where none is coming.
7. The study should not be undertaken
if management is unwilling to make changes.
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One can add to these points the fact that the Directorate
representatives have also been provided a questionnaire with
which they are to interview a small sampling of analysts. In
addition to reservations about the soundness of the questionnaire,
there are strong reservations about the validity and propriety of
these interviews being carried out by analysts. Moreover, no
authority in the form of official notification of such a survey has
been issued. I---_
1. Management should rethink the "youth issue" and
give some careful consideration as to what the PSS study should
be doing, its purposes, its approach, its effects.
2. The study group should be free from managerial
pressures--i. e. , that the "issue" is defined by management;
that there is a time pressure for quick and hasty completions.
3. Management should broaden the scope of the study
to include all, or a wide variety of age and grade groups.
4. That the group should be enlarged to include
broader representation from the Directorates.
5. That management should launch the study officially,
i. e. , a notice announcing the study, its objectives, and how
management hopes to use its findings.
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