DDCI COMMENTS - PAR BRIEFING IN HEADQUARTERS AUDITORIUM ON 27 SEPTEMBER 1979

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89-01114R000300090009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 27, 1979
• Content Type: NOTES

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DDCI Continents - PAR Briefing in Headquarters Auditorium on 27 September 1979
. refine our executive development programs. Under the new
Performance Appraisal System, the supervisor will have, I would suppose,
three basic responsibilities. First is to be a Rating Officer and a
Reviewing Officer and this is going to become terribly important. It is
going to become more relevant to people as their salaries are closely
tied to their evaluations and,while we are only going to implement the
SIS on 1 October and, as most of you are aware, the legislation envisages
a Merit Pay System which goes further down through the ranks, and as soon
as we get the SIS System underway we intend to start on the design of
the Merit Pay System and sooner or later it is going to impact down
through the middle and some of the lower management levels. So you
will have responsibility as Rating and Reviewing Officers to reward the
strong employees and sort out those employees who are . . ."
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Topic on Merit Pay for 18 October SIS Meeting
Let me touch for a moment on another feature of the Civil Service
Reform Act, the Merit Pay System for GS-13 through GS-15 managers. This
System will not be fully operational elsewhere in government until October
1981 and we, like other Federal agencies not under the system, are watching
carefully the progress of those few agencies that have implemented the
Merit Pay.
This concept also is intended to recognize and reward quality
performance by merit pay increases in varying amounts and covers only
those GS-13 through GS-15 employees who are supervisors or managers.
Under the concept for that group of employees, the PSI's are abolished and
the employees affected get only half of the comparable pay offered each
year. These two sources of funds are then used for the bonuses paid.
It is possible that my remarks at the Kick-Off of the new Performance
Appraisal System may have been misunderstood to mean that this Agency has
made a decision to implement a Merit Pay System similar to that envisaged
under the Civil Service Reform Act. Let me assure you here today, and
please let others under your supervision know, that this is not the case.
In the next few months, the Office of Personnel will initiate an intensive
study of the Merit Pay System. As was the case with the proposals of the
Senior Intelligence Service, the results of the Office of Personnel study
will be reviewed by the Executive Committee. If in the end the Merit Pay
System, as described in the Civil Service Reform Act, does not make sense
for this Agency, we will not adopt it; if it does, we will.
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DDCI Convents - PAR Briefing in Headquarters Auditorium on 27 September 1979
. . refine our executive development programs. Under the new
Performance Appraisal System, the supervisor will have, I would suppose,
three basic responsibilities. First is to be a Rating Officer and a
Reviewing Officer and this is going to become terribly important. It is
going to become more relevant to people as their salaries are closely
tied to their evaluations and,while we are only going to implement the
SIS on 1 October and, as most of you are aware, the legislation envisages
a Merit Pay System which goes further down through the ranks, and as soon
as we get the SIS System underway we intend to start on the design. of
the Merit Pay System and sooner or later it is going to impact down
through the middle and some of the lower management levels. So you
will have responsibility as Rating and Reviewing Officers to reward the
strong employees and sort out those employees who are . . ."
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