DOD POSTS NSPS PERFORMANCE TOOL

Source: fednews-online

Department of Defense employees already in the National Security Personnel System now have an online tool to facilitate the System’s performance management process.

According to the NSPS Web site, the Performance Appraisal Application provides an online venue for supervisors and employees to “discuss performance, document areas of growth and share ideas regarding job objectives and work plans.”

Employees who have not yet converted to NSPS can not access the tool, but a demo is available on the Web site.

Implemented in “Spirals”, only 11,000 DoD civilian employees are currently covered by the System. DoD announced in July that NSPS Spiral 1.2 will bring an additional 66,500 employees into the system between October 2006 and January 2007.

NSPS is a performance-based human capital system that will eventually incorporate almost 700,000 DoD civilian employees’ pay and classification, performance management, hiring, workforce shaping, disciplinary matters, appeals procedures and labor-management relations.

Only the performance management, compensation and classification, staffing and workforce shaping provisions of the human resources component were implemented on April 30 with Spiral 1.1. (See NSPS BEGINS SUNDAY at http://www.fednews-online.com/?publicationId=9139.)

The system’s adverse actions, appeals and labor-management components, however, are mired in litigation between DoD and a coalition of unions and will not be implemented with either spiral. (See DOD LIKELY TO APPEAL NSPS DECISION at http://www.fednews-online.com/?publicationId=8934.)

More information about NSPS can be found at http://www.cpms.osd.mil/nsps/index.html#.