OBSERVATIONS FROM STATISTICS ON THE DDA CAREER SERVICE AND ITS CAREER SUB-GROUPS FY 1974 AND FY 1975

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00357R000700070029-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: May 28, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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OBSERVATIONS FROM STATISTICS ON THE
DDA CAREER SERVICE AND ITS CAREER SUB-GROUPS
FY 1974 and FY 1975
A. The DDA Career Service
During this period the increase in the average grades of DDA Career
Service positions and personnel was significantly less than the increase
in the average grade of Agency positions and personnel overall and far
less than such increased in the DDI and DDS$T Career Services. (See Tab Al)
Nonetheless, the pattern of the average grade of DDA careerists overall
has been appreciably lower than the average grade of DDA Career Service
positions.
There are significantly fewer DDA careerists on duty in grades
GS-09 and above than are required by the number of M designated positions
in that grade range; and, there are significantly more DDA careerists
on duty than are required in grades GS-08 and below (see Tab A2).
This mismatch of personnel resources and requirements seems quite
out of order in the light of current limitations on DDA personnel
resources overall.
B. The Training Career Sub-Group
The average grades of both MT positions and MT careerists exceed
the average grades of positions and employees in other career sub-
groups of the DDA Career Service. (See Tab B1)
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The very high average grade of Mr positions is influenced to a
large extent by the inclusion o high graded positions which
are encumbered continuously by non MI' careerists on rotational assignment
to OTR.
Such positions should be assigned designations of the Career Services
which man them since the MT Career Sub-Group includes no employees to
fill these positions and has no plan to recruit or develop such resources.
C. The Security Career Sub-Group
The average grade of MS positions and careerists are closely related
a are second highest among Career Sub-Groups in the DDA Career Service.
(See Tab Cl)
The close relationship between the grades of positions and
employees in the Security Career Service is apparently the result of the
long established management style of that Service which has continuously
and consciously "used" the headroom available to members of that Career
ILL1=LID Sub-Group. This practice seems wise in/times of limited personnel resources.
D. The Finance Career Sub-Group
The average grade of NF positions and personnel is third highest
among those of Career Sub-Groups in the DDA Career Service. (See Tab Dl)
Although there has been a significant increase in the average grade
of NF positions during the last two years, the average grade of MF
careerists has changed little.
The discrepancies of grades between NF positions and MF employees
is greater than would seem reasonable in so small a Career Sub-Group with
limited personnel resourcesl.
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F. The Personnel Career Sub-Group
1. There has been very little change in the average grade of
positions or employees which are both next to the lowest among those
of Career Sub-Groups in the DDA Career Service. (See Tab Fl)
2. The discrepancies between the average grade of positions and
employes in the Personnel Career Service is much greater than would seem
reasonable in so small a Career Sub-Group faced with restricted personnel
resources. This discrepancy seems to reflect continuation of an out-
dated managerial style which is out of place in present circumstances.
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