NETL’s Performance Management and Awards System

Strategic Compensation Conference 2002

August 27, 2002
Rita A. Bajura, Director

National Energy Technology Laboratory

• One of DOE’s 17 national labs
• Government owned / operated
• Sites in:
  • Alaska
  • Oklahoma
  • Pennsylvania
  • West Virginia
• More than 1,100 federal and support contractor employees

Our Mission

• Resolve the environmental, supply, and reliability constraints of producing and using fossil resources
• Support development and deployment of environmental technologies to remediate DOE’s weapons complex

What We Do

• Shape, fund, and manage extramural RD&D
• Conduct onsite research
• Support energy policy development

Shape, Fund, and Manage Extramural RD&D

• 1,100 research activities in all 50 states and several foreign countries
• Total award value $6.6 billion
• Private sector cost-sharing of $2.2 billion
  • Leverages DOE funding
  • Ensures relevance
  • Accomplishes missionthrough commercialization

• Industry - 468
• Academia - 262
• Not For Profit Labs - 117
• National Labs - 125
• Other - 53
  

A Well-Trained Workforce

• Contractor
  • Other - 314
  • B.S - 142
  • M.S.- 65
  • Ph.D. - 21
• Federal
  • Other - 135
  • B.S - 175
  • M.S. - 176
  • Ph.D. - 110
    

New Challenges, New Opportunities

• METC
• PETC
  • FETC
    • NETL

Organizational Success

• Performance Incentive Leadership
• Results

NETL’s PMAS

• Goal setting
• Performance measurement
• Rewarding results
  

An Integrated Planning Process

• Motivation
• Leadership
  • Work Goals of Individuals
  • Operations Plans
  • Product Plans
  • Institutional Plan
  • Business Plan
    

Performance Measurement
"Dashboard" Improves Focus on Most Critical Performance Trends

Customer Satisfaction (Yellow)

• Funding (Green)
• Information Products (Red)

Investment Results (Green)

• DOE/OMB Scorecard (Green)
• GPRA/Joule Performance (Yellow)
• Public Benefits (Red)

Human and Physical Resources (Yellow)

• Safety (Green)
• Employees (Red)
• Infrastructure (Yellow)
• Assessments and Surveys (Yellow)
  

Organizational Effectiveness

• Strategic Focus (Yellow)
• Projects (Green)
• Science and Technology (Red)
• Cost Control (Yellow)

Rewarding for Results

• Organizational Performance Award
• Special Recognition Award
• Time Off Award
• Quality Step Increase

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