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FY 2000
Budget Justification/Performance Plan


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ES Goal 5: A new merit promotion process, supported by the merit principles, will provide agencies with practical and flexible processes that support a high- quality workforce.
Means Blue Arrow Head  Continue to work with cross-disciplinary agency work groups consisting of human resources professionals, EEO professionals, line managers, and a variety of OPM offices including the internal personnel office, OMSOE, and Center for Partnership and Labor-Management Relations, to identify agencies’ concerns and best practices regarding existing merit promotion processes.
Blue Arrow Head  Consult, on an ongoing basis, a variety of stakeholders (e.g., NAPA, IPMA, 11 national unions, Federal senior executives) and private sector counterparts to identify and maintain best practices in employee recruitment, selection, and promotion.
Blue Arrow Head  Final regulations to implement revised merit promotion policy process will be issued during FY 2000.
Blue Arrow Head  Develop merit promotion guidebook that provides agencies and employees with best merit promotion practices, a definition of terms, and approaches and options available to agencies while adhering to the merit principles.
Blue Arrow Head  Develop a component of new merit promotion policy that requires agencies to provide orientation and training for employees on the agency’s merit promotion process.
Blue Arrow Head  Work closely with OMSOE to ensure that agencies are implementing new merit promotion processes in compliance with merit principles and regulations.
    
Indicators/Performance Results Blue Arrow Head   Agency satisfaction that their views were taken into account and that the new process will be effective at the 90% or higher level, as measured by the OPM Customer Satisfaction Survey. Because this is an FY 1999/2000 initiative, there are no data to report from the FY 1998 baseline survey.
Blue Arrow Head   The publication of new regulations regarding merit promotion policy will be issued as planned.
Blue Arrow Head   A merit promotion process guidebook will be developed and published as planned.
Blue Arrow Head   Orientation and training materials that assists agencies in meeting the regulatory requirements will be developed and published as planned.

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