- Author
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Cassady, A.
- Title
- NIST Personnel Management Demonstration Project: Design, Implementation and Accomplishments.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standrds and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NISTIR 4640
July 1991
92 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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compensation
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demonstration project
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performance management
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position classifications
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recruitment
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retention
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personnel management
- Abstract
- The NIST Authorization Ace forFiscal Year 1987 provided for a 5-year project to demonstrate an alternative personnel management system, which was implemented January 1, 1988. The project system was built on the concepts of total compensation comparability, market sensitivity, pay for performance, administrative simplicity, management flexibility, and government-wide applicability. Designed to improve hiring and retention of high-quality personnel and to more effectively compensate and retain high performaers, the project dramatically changed the way NIST administers pay, position classification, recruitment, qualifications examination, retention, and performance management for former General Schedule employees. Evaluations and feedback from managers and employees have shown that project personnel systems have improved NIST's ability to recruit and retain quality staff; make compensation more competitive; link pay to performance;p simplify position classification; streamline processing; improve the staffing process and get new hires aboard faster; and increase the manger's role and accountability in personnel management.