MANAGEMENT STAFF ACTIVITIES

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 11, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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11 August 1983
SUBJD T: Management Staff Activities
1. A meeting on the subject was held on 26 July 83. In
attendance were:
2. opened the meeting by stating that the Management
Staff s ou a doing more in the areas of Directorate-wide studies,
objective analysis, and exploring topics of concern to the DDA and
ADDA. As an example of the types of studies, he suggested that the
reorgrization of the Directorate might be a useful topic.
3. The proper location of the Safety Staff was used as a point of
departure for this discussion. After some deliberation, all parties
agreed that the Safety Staff should probably be placed within the
Office of Medical Services (OMS). This is because the Safety Staff's
"charter" is concerned with the health and well being of Agency
employees as is OMS, some of its services are parallel to those of
OMS, and organizationally, a better coordinated safety program would
result with Safety Staff being part of OMS. Given the latter's
relatively small size, it could easily absorb the Safety Staff.
4. Other Directorate organizational matters were then discussed.
One of the subjects discussed was the possibility of a "universal MZ
career service" for computer professionals. This concept is by no
means new, but the rapid increase in automation and need for
hardware/software expertise throughout the Agency have highlighted the
perceived problem. Components are creating data processing positions,
in some cases, filling them with former ODP personnel. The result is
that there are discrepancies in pay and benefits because of the
inability of many components to adequately evaluate data processing
performance. It is felt that like finance officers, all data
processing professionals should belong to one career service so that
equitable personnel practices can be exercised, standardized data
processing practices can be enforced as necessary, and a service
"pool" can be provided to better meet overall Agency needs.
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5. Finally, the question of the overall DA organization was
discussed. Perhaps the Directorate should be organized in a more
functional manner--Financial Services, Physical Services, Personnel
Services, Information Services, and Other Services, for example. One
of the factors to be considered is the fact that currently some
offices have both a regulatory/enforce, rent responsibility as well as
support responsibilities. Therefore, a structure which more clearly
isolates these two responsibilities into separate entities might be
worth pursuing. All agreed that this matter required more thought and
all would consider the various factors involved as they surfaced in
day-to-day operations.
6. The group will reconvene soon to continue this discussion in
late September or October.
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