OVERHAUL OF PERSONNEL SYSTEM PUSHED

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2012
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 18, 1988
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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FRIDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 1988
OPEAN STARS & STRIPES
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O~rerhaul of personnel system- pushed
Iy EEDEE ARRINGTON DOKE
lo W CRYSTAL LAUREANO
Staff writers
/The U.S. government's "monolithic"
personnel management system must be
improved to draw top candidates for
professional and scientific positions, a
Defense Department personnel exec-
utive says.
"I don't want to overthrow the sys-
tem. I just want to make it more ro-
sponsive," said Frank Cipolla, director
of personnel management to the assist-
ant secretary of defense for civilian per-
sonnel policy.
Cipolla made the comments Friday in
a talk at Ramstein AB to the West Ger-
many chapter of the International Per-
sonnel Management Association. He also
spoke Wednesday in Willingen at a Joint
Services Club Managers Workshop.
Part of the government's concern for
improving personnel management
stems from the public's view of the gov-
ernment as a "last choice" employer,
Cipolla said.
Using Ivy League schools as exam-
ples, Cipolla said a recent poll showed
that only one out of 365 Yale Univer-
sity seniors had an interest in a federal
career. And only one-third of the stu-
dents graduating from the John F. Ken-
nedy School of Government at Har-
vard University take jobs in
government, he said.
.We really need to ... attract our
share of the best and the brightest,"
Cipolla said.
Ten years ago, fewer than 10,000 fed-
eral employees were paid special salary
rates for working in hard-to-fill jobs, he
said. That number has crown to more
than 145,000, "and requests for thou-
sands more are pending, Cipolla said.
A personnel management system
"should be designed to attract, acquire,
develop and retain people competent to
do their jobs," Cipolla said.
If the personnel management system
in place doesn't accomplish those ends,
it should be changed, he said. He noted
that the existing system "doesn't leave
much room" for flexibility, innovation
or entrepreneurship.
An improved system would provide
"clear incentives and tangible re-
wards," and could include exchange
programs with the private sector, less
structured classifications, . "more en-
lightened child care ... and a more
market-oriented pay system."
A personnel system known as EXPO
is being tested in Heidelberg, Stuttgart
and Sembach AB, West Germany, for
three years as a means of solving many
problems that bog down the personnel
management machinery.
Cipolla said that it is too early to pre-
dict the outcome of the test, one of sever-
al projects the Defense Department has
tackled to revitalize and streamline its
civilian personnel management.
"But right now, it looks pretty
good," he said.
A personnel issue that remains unre-
solved for many civilian employees in-
volves the shift of a number of positions
in the morale, welfare and recreation ac-
tivities from appropriated fund, or gener-
al schedule positions, to non-appropri-
ated fund jobs and vice versa.
The "portability of benefits," a catch
phrase meaning equitable transfer of
employee benefits between the two per-
sonnel systems, has not been resolved,
Cipolla said.
An interagency task force was estab-
lished Sept. 8 to develop a proposal
that will be presented to Congress in
December, he said. Among the issues to
be considered are the transfer of sick
and annual leave and health benefits.
"Obviously, some parts will involve
legislation," Cipolla said.
. An employee from the Wiirzburg
club system voiced concern at Will-
ingen over the possibility of repeating a
probation with the changeover.
"It's like starting all over again,"
Willie Williams said.
Another employment trend with
widespread implications for both the
private and public sector is "career pla-
teauing," Cipolla told the Ramstein au-
dience. The trend is characterized by
an oversupply of qualified candidates
seeking career advancement but find-
ing fewer promotion opportunities, Ci-
polla said.
One illustration of the drive for up-
ward career mobility is the number of
candidates for master's degrees in busi-
ness administration in the United
States. Since 1960, Cipolla said, MBA
graduates increased from 4,500 to
71,000 in 1986. In 1987, 200,000 grad-
uate students were studying for the ad-
vanced degree, Cipolla said.
"My guess is we're going to see
much, much more" of people hitting a
career plateau, Cipolla said. The gov-
ernment's challenge will be to find "al-
teynatives to promotion as being the
pinnacle of the reward structure."
Submarine costs
sinking french missile
PARIS - Cost overruns in mod-
ernizing submarines are bogging
down French plans to deploy a new
land-based nuclear missile, the
intermediate-range S4, Defense
Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement
said yesterday.
He said spending on the pro-
MEDIA... from Pg. 5
dispatch on the whereabouts of
the potential attacks. ANSA
added that the Red Brigs
have claimed joint responsi-
bility with the Red Army for
Tuesday's failed assassination
attempt on W. German Finance/
Min Hans Tietmeyer.
IRAN/CHINA RELATIONS: Chinese
Premier Li Peng has told Iran-
23 SEPTEMBER 1988
posed missile would be slowed
down pending a review of the
weapon's future. Legislators are to
review the defense budget in the
spring.
France hopes to launch the first
of its new generation of nuclear
missile submarines, the Triom-
phant, in 1994. Designers are
struggling with the problem of
making them so quiet as to be
undetectable.
ian Dep. PM Hamid Mir Zadeh
that Beijing is willing to
help in the reconstruction of
Iran as best it can. A 22
Sept. dispatch by China's Xin-
hua News Agency also quo tea
Peng as saying Iran has the
resources to rebuild its econ-
omy and country in the short
run. Xinhua added that Zadeh
is head ni g an Iranian trade
With a range of 2,000 miles, the
S4 has been likened to the U.S.
Pershing-2 missile, which is being
destroyed under the accord be-
tween Washington and Moscow to
scrap intermediate-range'nuclear
forces. It was scheduled for deploy-
ment on the Plateau d'Albion in
Provence in 1996. -
and economic delegation to
China and quoted the Prime
Minister as saying his country
attaches great importance to
developing relations with
China.
(Summarized from translations
provided by Foreign Broadcast
Information Service. Complete
texts available from SAF/AAR,
4C881)
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FRIDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 1988
Bill targets companies
raiding chemical war
Sy Bill Gertz
THE NMSHMGTON TMIES
Legislation introduced in the Sen-
ate yesterday would impose eco-
nomic sanctions on Western compa-
nies that support chemical weapons
production by Libya, Syria, Iran and
Iraq.
"'Tragically, there are apparently
some irresponsible and greedy com-
panies in free world countries-for
a few bucks - (who] are helping the
likes of (Libyan leader. Muammar]
Qaddafi and [Iran's Ayatollah]
Khomeini develop the capacity for
mass murder," said Senate Minority
Leader Robert Dole, Kansas Repub-
lican.
Mr. Dole, chief sponsor of the
measure, said congressional investi-
gations revealed that Libya, Syria,
Iran and Iraq are either producing
or are close to producing chemical
weapons, thereby "creating a grave
threat to American interests and re-
gional stability"
The Senate leader did not identify
where the companies were located
that have provided the material to
the four Middle Eastern nations but
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
JAPANESE SPACE SHUTTLE:
An
ex-
perimental prototype
of
the
Japanese
space shuttle
was
not
launched
yesterday because
the
balloon
carrying the craft
be-
gan descending before reaching
its proper altitude, reported
Japan's Kyodo News Service. A
22 Sept. dispatch quoted offi-
cials from the Japanese Insti-
tute of Space and Astron-
autical Science as saying that
if the experimental shuttle
reached its intended altitude,
CIA Reportedly
Mum as Copters
Were Smuggled
From News Services
The Central Intelligence Agency
let North Korean agents smuggle
.86 high-performance Hughes hel-
icopters out of the United States
and withheld the information from
law enforcement officials for nearly
noted that "this whole problem can-
not be laid to firms in any one coun-
try,,
Mr. Dole, in an apparent refer-
ence to the recent illegal transfer of
high-technology milling machines
from Japan's Tbshiba Corp. to the
Soviet Union, said that sale had
threatened U.S. strategic forces and
compromised Western security.
"Let us learn the lesson of that
recent past;' Mr. Dole said in Senate
floor remarks. "This time let us act
effectively before the worst of the
damage is done.
"We have a strong weapon to do
the job: economic sanctions;' he
said. "Let's make that the real
tradeoff: Do business with Qaddafi
and you can kiss goodbye to any busi-
ness you want to do in America."
Intelligence officials briefed
members of Congress in recent days
on the proliferation of chemical
weapons in the Middle East and re-
vealed that West Germany, Japan,
Italy, Holland and Switzerland have
been linked the trading of materials
used to produce the weapons.
The legislation was drafted in re-
sponse to reports that a Japanese
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firm, Japan Steel Works Ltd. of Hiro-
shima, was involved in building pre-
cision bomb casings in Libya as part
of a chemical weapons production
complex.
Iraq also has used chemical weap-
ons against Iran and its own Kurdish
minority, and Syria and Iran have
developed chemical weapons, under
the guise of building fertilizer or
pesticide plants.
The Chemical Warfare Control
Act, as the bill is called, was intro-
duced as an amendment to the Ex-
port Administration Act, which reg-
ulates U.S. exports. If passed, it
would require the president to re-
port to Congress twice a year on the
status of chemical weapons produc.
tion in Libya, Syria, Iran and Iraq,
and provide a list of companies that
have "aided and abetted" those coun-
tries in building chemical weapons.
The bill would then impose a two-
to five-year sanction on any com-
pany on the list, barring U.S. govern-
ment contracts and banning the
company's imports into the United
States.
"This is emergency legislation de-
signed to deal with an emergency
situation;' said co-sponsor Sen.
Jesse Helms, North Carolina Repub-
lican and ranking minority member
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.
Republican Sens. Rudy Bosch-
witz of Minnesota, Jake Garn of
Utah and John Heinz of Pennsylva-
the space craft would have
been fired beyond the earth's
atmosphere and would have pro-
vided scientific data upon re-
entry to into the atmosphere.
IRAN/GULF MINESWEEPING: Yes-
terday morning Iranian navy
units began minesweeping oper-
ations in international waters
of the northern and southern
portions of the Persian Gulf
in order to ensure safe pas-
sage along Gulf shipping
routes, reported Radio Tehran.
A 22 Sept. broadcast said that
the operations are taking
WASHINGTON TIMES
23 SEPTEMBER 1988
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U.S. plans deal
for arms with Seoul
The United States plans to sell
South Korea $238 million in jet
fighters, aircraft spare parts and
air-to-air missiles, the Reagan ad-
ministration told Congress yester-
day.
The equipment is not considered
pntroversial and the sale is ex-
pected to become official in 30 days
'without objection from Congress.
The package includes 12 F-4C
Vietnam War-era jets with elec-
tronic countermeasures equipment-
to help protect them in battle, the
Pentagon said. The jets would be
sold for $138 million and would be
supplied from U.S. Air National
Guard stocks. Other equipment in
the sale includes 76 "Sparrow"
air-to-air missiles worth $21 million.
nia also joined in sponsoring the bill.
An administration official who de-
clined to be named said the White
House has "serious concerns" about
the bill since it contains provisions
that would penalize a broad array of
businesses. The bill also would un-
dercut international efforts to curb
the spread of chemical weapons, the
official said.
place on a vast scale and in-
volve dozens of ships, air
units and special teams of
frogmen.
RED BRIGADE/RED ARMY PLOT: The
Italian-based Red Brigade ter-
rorist group and the W.
German-based Red Army terror-
ist organization have arranged
a joint autumn campaign aimed
at conducting terrorist at-
tacks,, reported the Italian
News Agency (ANSA). No refer-
ence was made in the 22 Sept.
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year, according to an NBC News
report.
NBC, which did not identify
sources, said North Korean agents
around the world were coordinated
by a top North Korean intelligence
officer based in East Berlin, who
an the smuggling operation from a
Ducking company in West Berlin.
The CIA was aware of his activ-
ities, NBC said, and the network
quoted authorities as saying the
trucking firm, a Soviet front, was
bugged, allowing U.S. agents to lis-
ten in as North Koreans plotted.
Quoting U.S. law enforcement of-
ficials, NBC said the CIA knew the
plan but considered their source of
information so sensitive that they
did-not pass on details to American
law enforcement officials.
NBC obatined a document show-
ing that underwriter. Lloyd's of Lon-
don insured the helicopters against
confiscation during their transport
from Long Beach, Calif.; to Bel-
gium; the Netherlands; Hong Kong,
and then to North Korea.
U.S. authorities in California fi-
nally learned enough to seize a final
shipment of 15 of the Hughes 500
helicopters-the same model sup-
plied by the United States to the
South Korean army.
South Korean military officers
told NBC they fear North Korea
may use the choppers in a cross-
border attack.
Secretary of Defense Frank C.
Carlucci acknowledged to NBC that
the helicopters in North Korean
hands represent a serious setback
to South Korean security.
In February, California brothers
Ronald and Monte Semler pleaded
guilty to conspiracy and to export
and tax law violations stemming
from the illegal shipment of the
Hughes helicopters to North Korea.
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