COMMENTS ON MANPOWER ISSUES FOR DCI OFF-SITE CONFERENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86M00886R000600110039-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: August 16, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director
FROM:
Acting Director of Personnel
SUBJECT: Comments on Manpower Issues for DCI Off-Site Conference.
feel it is important that the Agency not become totally immersed or tied to
Intelligence Community proposals on solutions to manpower problems. The
Community solution to one or several of the issues may not be satisfactory or
compatible with the needs of individual agencies, particularly this Agency.
Therefore, the "Challenge" section should be expanded to state that both the
Community and individual agencies must be prepared to provide Congress with
accurate and persuasive arguments dealing with issues such as benefit and pay.
comparability.
satisty manpower needs are worth considering:
-- In the past, the disruptions of serving overseas
were compensated by a higher standard of living and a at:
generally positive foreign attitude toward Americans.
However, the increasing devaluation of the U.S. dollar
and a spreading adverse, or even militant, attitude
toward Americans are making it more difficult to
recruit people for work overseas and to assign existing,
employees.
The growing prevalence of the two-income family affects
assignment and even retention. (The Agency already is
seeing the impact on overseas and domestic assign-
ments.) The retention of employees can be affected by
the reassignment of an "outside" spouse. Circumstances
leading to the resignation of an Agency employee may
also lead to the resignation of a spouse. (Double
separations have been a recent phenomenon in the
Agency.)
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The growth of dual careers for Community employees and
their spouses presents special problems. The increased
numbers of qualified women in skilled positions
increase the likelihood of both spouses of a married
couple having careers in the Community. The growth of
this phenomenon presents the Community with problems
involving dual assignments overseas, separated tours,
or the preservation of the dormant career of an
accompanying spouse. These challenges can only be
expected to increase in future years.
Employees are now more likely to question the
desirability of assignments than they were in past
years. These questions involve not only career issues
but domestic circumstances. Family satisfaction with,-
facilities and services is now a much bigger issue in
assignments involving relocations... As a result of
these changes, the Community will be increasingly faced
wth meeting employee demands for career satisfaction as
.well as family support in accomplishing employee
reassignments.
The new Federal emphasis on discouraging early.retire-
ment, a discouraging environment for second careers,
and growing pressure to permit workers to work as long
as they are capable will all have the effect of raising
the average retirement age for Community employees.
This in turn, by reducing retirements, will reduce the-.,
promotion rate. Disappointed employees may seek
alternative employment. It is thus quite possible that
retirement rates may stay low while resignation rates
rise. '
3. It is clear that there is a strong requirement for initiative that
will provide the necessary high quality, representative, responsive work force
while maintaining a personnel management system and program that provide a
reasonable standard of living and foster a sense of self-esteem. The Agency
welcomes the opportunity to discuss and confront this challenge.
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