OPM Congressional Budget Justification and Annual Performance Plan

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

FY 2000
Budget Justification/Performance Plan

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EXECUTIVE RESOURCES

In allocating personnel resources, maintain the corporate goals of a smaller executive corps that is consistent with an overall smaller, more streamlined and delayered Federal workforce.

ER Goal 3: FY 1999/FY 2000	The levels of executive resources assigned Governmentwide and by agency through the 2000-2001 biennial allocation and subsequent interim adjustments meet the Administration’s corporate goal of maintaining an executive workforce consistent with overall government downsizing while efficiently supporting agency missions.

		In FY 1998, ER held the number of allocated SES and other senior positions to reduced levels achieved in 1996. In FY 1999, ER will review agency requests for the FY 2000 -2001 biennium and limit increases to the minimum necessary to support critical agency missions. Ad hoc adjustments after the initial biennial allocation will be limited to those necessary to meet unanticipated needs initiated by Congress or the Administration.
		Focus agencies’ attention on the importance of executive resources planning and analysis, including succession planning, to meet current and future mission requirements and integrate those activities with their strategic plans. Such planning will result in more efficient use of existing resources and reduce their need to request new resources.
		Clarify differences among types of executive resources, i.e., Senior Executive Service, Senior Level and Scientific and Professional to facilitate allocation adjustments addressing the kinds of positions needed for agency missions. This will help agencies make better use of existing executive resources and more accurately determine future position requirements.

		Agencies operate successfully within initial biennial allocations. Cumulative ad hoc adjustments during the FY 2000-2001 biennial cycle result in no more than a 2.5% increase in executive resources allocated by OPM, i.e., Senior Executive Service, Senior Level and Scientific and Professional positions, as compared to the initial Governmentwide biennial FY 2000-2001 allocation, exclusive of any new agencies being created. This figure represents one-half of the 5% increase in SES spaces which statute (5 U.S.C. 3133) otherwise allows between biennial cycles. It reflects ER’s plan to focus agencies on conducting a comprehensive, quality analysis for the biennial review so that the need for interim ad hoc adjustments will be reduced.
		Qualitative analysis of Reports submitted in conjunction with the biennial review show that agencies are effectively managing their executive resources and integrating a succession planning emphasis.

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