INVESTIGATING AND SHARING PERSONNEL APPROACHES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00357R000900080014-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2002
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: April 10, 1973
• Content Type: MF

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10 April 1973
SUBJECT . Investigating and Sharing Personnel Approaches
REFERENCES : A. Memo for Mr. William E. Colby fr D/Pers dtd 21 Feb 73,
subj: Policies and Procedures in Separate Components
Applicable Elsewhere
B. Memo for Ex/Dir-Compt fr MAG, subj: Policies and
Procedures in Separate Components Applicable Elsewhere
STATINTL
C. Bulletin dtd 12 Jan 73, subj: Review of
Agency Systems for Evaluation of Personnel Management
1. You advised Mr. Colby in Reference A that the Office of Personnel
will use its access channels to the components in order to identify and
share successful personnel management practices that are in use throughout
the Agency. Mr. Colby said "okay"and asked us to hold a yearly "show and
tell" to publicize results and generate some action.
2. MAG, indicated in Reference B, that it was collecting additional
STAT material for a sequel. According tol MAG is presently
focused on other matters, and she doesn't anticipate an early revival of
its interest in this subject.
3. I thought we would start action on a pilot basis; assimilate
initial findings; establish a modus operandi; and then schedule surveys
throughout the Agency as time permits. We expect to keep the process simple
by talking initially to personnel officers and using a series of questions
that have been formulated by Plans Staff. We may or may not use a tape
STAT recorder, although we are tempted to do so, because of success
with it in preparing his oral history. We will routinely ask the same
questions and systematize our notes to facilitate comparisons and analysis
later on. After we develop a routine, we hope to share and integrate the
job with activities of PMCD.
4. The thrust of our efforts will be to develop a better picture of
personnel program effectiveness, it order to help the components and career
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services. We plan to stay clear of personnel evaluation in the negative
sense during the first go-around. After confidences are gained, we want
to move into other aspects of a personnel evaluation program, perhaps next
year. As you noted in Reference C, the APP and PDP are parts of an overall
personnel evaluation program. Also related are this project and others,
such as MBO and the proposed future development of personnel guidances
(for use by components in annual planning and goal-setting).
5. We would like fairly soon to start the pilot phase in about four
components, within two or three of the Directorates. Possibilities are
OCI, OL, NE and OEL.
6. In view of Mr. Colby's support of our project, I do not foresee
any difficulty in talking to personnel officers and support officials,
but I believe it would be helpful if the Operating Officials heading the
components were told in advance of our arrival to make sure they realize
we are trying to help, not investigate, them. Accordingly, I would
appreciate your contacting the Heads of the four Offices indicated in this
paper, or any others in lieu of those suggested, to acquaint them of our
plans and gain their endorsement. For your reference, there are attached
Mr. Colby's note on support of the project and a list of representative
items of proposed coverage in our survey.
STAT
UhIer, Plans Staff
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