HUMAN RESOURCE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89-01147R000100120062-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: December 1, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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Human Resource System Improvements
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FBIS-0380/86
1 December 1986
NIE]NORAND[JM FOR: Deputy Director for Science and Technology
rector, reign Broadcast Information Service
SUBJECT: Human Resource System Improvements
1. If there is one message that comes through loud and clear from
the senior members of FBIS it is the need for a coin rehensive human
resource system. It appears to us that it will -be-o lid the value to
implement what seem to some to be attractive options (such as banding)
without viewing them as a part of a total resource system. While compen-
sation is a highly visible and essential element of that system, we
should not adopt a single element of anew system until we have had an
opportunity to measure its implications on the other revised programs
such as recruitment and selection or staff development and training.
2. From a purely FBIS standpoint, we view the issues as follows:
-- We are equally concerned about our ability to offer
competitive starting salaries and about compensating those at the
high end of the scale. This affects not only retention, but our
ability to recruit/retain at levels above nominal entry level; ie,
mid-career or higher.
-- We see our ability to recruit limited not only by salary
constraints, but by the inability of the Agency to process the
people in a reasonable fashion. It bothers us that the improvement
goal for recruitment on the w-graph was "reduced processing time."
It would seem to us that the goal should be to maximize the
throughput of the system while achieving the shortest possible
processing time. Constraining the number put in process to an
unacceptably low number just to minimize the time in process is an
unacceptable solution.
-- We also place high priority on the ability to provide
incentives bonuses for hard to recruit/retain categories. This not
only includes our traditional plea for our linguists, but more and
more for technical skills as we move toward the realization of FBIS
modernization.
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SUBJECT: Htanan Resource System Improvements
-- We are collectively convinced that the PMCD process is a
major detriment to achieving strong organizations. As currently
constituted, they operate procedurally and philosophically in a
manner contrary to the concepts of flexibility in the workforce that
Agency management desires.
-- We see a newly structured and revitalized training program as
an essential element of any comprehensive human resource package. A
strengthening of the various career track training programs, includ-
ing skills maintenance courses, is needed as is the implementation
of a strong management training program and a program designed to
provide for the "retraining" of parts of our workforce as our skills
mix requirement changes over the years.
3. As noted in the first paragraph, if as a part of a comprehensive
human resource package banding makes sense, then so be it. At this
juncture it is not clear that a program that worked in OC is at all
applicable to the bulk of the compensation concerns in FBIS. While not
unanimous, this Office cannot endorse an across the board banding concept
at this time.
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SUBJECT: Hunan Resource System Improvements
D/FBI 1 Dec 86)
Distribution:
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1 - RV1>Nlanners Corres file
1 - E$PS Chrono
1 - C/EF,PS
1 - PO/RA
1 -FBIS Registry
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