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Show mUFrbViiMs Civil Service reform: By Ronald (Second service reform federal employee? In D. raise their salaries up to $66,000 a year. On the other hand, they may be removed from the SES for failure to meet Staub- - a Series) expectations. what's in it for the rank and file Civil individual employee's HThe ; FOR MANAGERS AND SUPERVISORS in grades GS-114 and 15, merit pay increases will be tied to individual and organizational performance rather than length of service. Within-grad- e increases for this group will be abolished, but of the annual comparability they will receive at least one-ha- lf white-collauthorized for other adjustment employees. 3, The person who has addressed himself to this question more than anyone else in the government is Alan K. Campbell. e performance evaluation system. "We to move away from the simple adjectives of need certainly satisfactory, unsatisfactory and outstanding, which has ended up with 98 percent of the federal employees being judged satisfactory," says Campbell. government-wid- AGENCIES MAY SET UP their own new systems specifying performance requirements and tying personnel actions more closely to individual performance. ar HE SPEARHEADED the administration's successful efforts to persuade Congress to pass the Civil Service Reform Act. " OPM Director Campbell points out that the rewards for executives, managers and supervisors in these two groups will be based upon "a strong appraisal system" reflecting the quality of their accomplishments. President Carter on Jan. 2 appointed Campbell director of the new Office of Personnel Management (OPM), one of two agencies which replaced the Civil Service Commission (CSC) as of the first of the year. HE BELIEVES THIS SYSTEM will meet one of the major criticisms of the Federal service by many employees, namely the "kind of management they get." . Cam pbell had been chairman of the CSC since May 1977. HE RECENTLY VIDEOTAPED his views on "the most pressing questions that are being asked by federal employees." LOGNEWS (the Air Force Logistics Command's news service) , screened the videotape in the Office of ."We think that the management improvements that will come about will make a tremendous difference to the quality of working life within the federal service," says Campbell. THE OPM DIRECTOR SAYS that after talking with "literally thousands" of federal employees across the country he finds that their chief criticism is "that they have who don't carry their fair share of the burdens and nothing is done about it.". Campbell asserts, for one thing, that two new instruments the Senior Executive Service created by the Reform Act for and a SES) merit pay system grades 13, 14 and 15 "will have impact on this whole system. And to that extent," he says, "all employees will be benefited." Campbell says this attitude leads to "one of the sources of the criticism of management : that nothing is done about it." COMPRISE some 8,000 managers now in grades 16. 17 and 18 of the General Schedule and in levels V IV of the Executive Schedule. Members of this elite corps HE GOES ON TO SAY, "We believe that the change in the standards against which employees will be judged and the kind of evidence that's necessary in order to make a disciplinary action effective will help change the attitudes and the atmosphere in the work place." and will be held accountable for organizational success and will receive awards pegged to performance. executives may earn meritorious rank through exceptional service and will be eligible for bonuses that could SKS FREEWAY MAZDA SALUTES -P- . - INSTALL NEW PLUGS INSTALL NEW POINTS SET TIMING & DWELL ADJUST CARBURETOR & CONDENSOR PISTON ENGINES WELECTRONIC NOW ONLY IGNITION ..... PEG1AU 3 DOOR HATCHBACK 3976 $0100 St WITH THE FOLLOWING -- Standard Ignition Slightly Higher ERVICE PECIALS ToTjpon" r- .? 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This bill will make the bureaucracy more responsible. It will build in incentives. Excellence can now be rewarded." Reg. $56.50 UPER 62H-11- "Today I'm happy to sign this bill, which marks the first major change in the Civil Service in nearly a century. This bill changes the rules in a constructive fashion, a carefully The Civil Service Reform Act abolishes the existing ATTENTION MAZDA OWNERS THE PRESIDENTS WITH THESE OPM Director Campbell quickly adds that he does not believe the new legislation will necessarily result in more people being fired; "I do think," he says, "that it will change attitudes and will create a much higher morale for all employees in the system." (Continued next week) -- Information at Headquarters AFLC. THE SES WILL The act provides special procedures for removals and demotions for unacceptable performance. 50 INCLUDES PARTS AND LABOR. ALL DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN CARS , CL APPOINTMENT & ENJOY OUR T.V. CUSTOMER AREA WHILE COMPETENT --- --. 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