The national security personnel system program office has
announced changes to its performance management implementing
issuance.
The issuance was revised to reflect design adjustments
that emphasize employee results, with a focus on the use
of results-oriented job objectives, written jointly by
employees and supervisors, according to the NSPS office.
It said the objectives would create a “line of sight:
showing how individual performance can contribute to
organizational goals and would serve as the primary basis
for employee performance ratings.
The objectives are also meant to be appropriate for
current salary and pay bands, and may be weighted.
Greater attention will be given to how performance
contributes to ratings. Contributing factors are to be
selected for each objective and would include job
performance attributes significant to individual objectives.
The new design also requires a higher level of review of
job objectives, and it requires supervisors to be rated
on at least one supervisory objective in order to hold
them accountable for carrying out responsibilities.
