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FY 2000
Budget Justification/Performance Plan


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HUMAN RESOURCES SYSTEMS AUTOMATION
  • Provide Governmentwide leadership via the Human Resources Technology Council for cooperative business process redesign and system modernization efforts, in support of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. (Continuing)
  • Through the Human Resources Technology Council, fully exploit modern automated technologies to improve human resource management practice for examining, training, classification, performance management, benefits administration, and personnel documentation and recordkeeping, by achieving the following sub-objectives:
By the year 1998, establish core requirements for human resources systems; set benchmarks; and evaluate existing and developing systems against requirements and benchmarks.
By the year 1999, establish requirements and a model for an electronic official personnel folder (Digital OPF) to replace paper personnel records.
ES Goal 2:
FY 1999/2000
With the Chief Information Officer (CIO), leadership and support are provided to the Human Resources Technology Council (HRTC) so that Governmentwide Human Resources business process redesign, systems modernization efforts, and planning initiatives to fully exploit the use of modern automated technologies are pursued. [See also OCIO Goal 1 under Administrative Services tab.]

The Human Resources Technology Council (HRTC) supports OPM’s interest in ensuring that agencies are able to make the best and most cost-effective use of automation to achieve human resource management objectives. The HRTC is responsible for crafting a long-term strategic vision and goals for human resource management Governmentwide, particularly as it relies on automation to accomplish these goals. (This goal incorporates actions covered by ES Goal 3 & ES Goal 4 in the FY 1999 plan.)

Means Blue Arrow Head  Co-chair the HRTC with OPM’s Chief Information Officer, convene regular meetings, and provide administrative support.
Blue Arrow Head  Ensure that a high level of participation continues through FY 2000 by addressing topics that are relevant and important to the HRTC members and their respective agency missions.
Blue Arrow Head  Through the HRTC, conduct and coordinate Governmentwide HR automation studies, such as the recently completed Governmentwide HR Information Systems Study and the ongoing Virtual Human Resources Data Repository (subgoal 2a) and share results of these studies to foster improvements in HR management.
Blue Arrow Head  Develop Governmentwide policy for cooperative business process redesign and systems modernization based on HRTC studies and analyses.
Blue Arrow Head  Use feedback from the HRTC members and other agencies as a tool for assessing policy effectiveness.
Blue Arrow Head  With HRTC support, encourage small agencies to establish consortia or other mechanisms to enable these agencies to benefit from automation advances.
Blue Arrow Head  Provide assistance to small agencies seeking to modernize their HR processing system(s) by offering access to a Government compliant, client-server based, HR processing system. Access would be offered through OPM’s "HR Host" service on a reimbursable basis to agencies interested in such service.
    
Indicators/Performance Results Blue Arrow Head   Satisfaction of HRTC members with the results of HRTC studies and services, and their opportunity for involvement in the Council policy making will increase over FY 1999 or maintain at 90%, as measured by the annual OPM Customer Satisfaction Survey.

The HRTC member’s baseline satisfaction levels as measured by the FY 1998 survey were as follows:

    Policy
Leadership
  Opportunity
for Involvement
HR Systems Automation   64%   82%
Governmentwide HR Infor.
Systems Study (1998)
  100%   92%
  Blue Arrow Head   Actions are initiated as a result of HRTC policy discussions.

During FY 1998, the HRTC delivered to the President’s Management Council a Governmentwide study on HR systems requirements and a review of current legacy and new developing systems in all major departments and agencies. This critically acclaimed study has been widely disseminated and is the basis for follow-on work during FY 1999 and 2000. These actions include development of a strategy with OPM on electronic data record-keeping and reporting; an occupational analysis of IT positions; working with the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP) on finalization of payroll requirements; and research on best practices in the public and private sectors in human resource automation.

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ES Subgoal 2a:
FY 1999/2000
As co-chair of the Human Resources Technology Council (HRTC), ES will support and assist other OPM organizations to begin the delivery of the initial capabilities that implement the Governmentwide vision of a Virtual Human Resources Data Repository. [See OCIO Goal 2a under Administrative Services tab for Means and Indicators].
ES Subgoal 2b: Under direction of the Human Resources Technology Council (HRTC), human resources information flow between agencies, OPM, and other relevant parties is improved through an expanded centralized delivery mechanism ("data hub").

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