REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE FROM DIRECTORATE CAREER SERVICES' CAREER MANAGEMENT OFFICERS AND OFFICE ADVISORY GROUPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05077A000100140005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 4, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

r O C T 1973
MFMJRANDUM FOR: Director of Communications
Director of Finance
erector of Logistics
erector of Medical Services
Director of Joint Computer Support
Director of Personnel
Director of Security
Director of Training
Director of Planning, Programming and Budgeting
SUBJECT : Request for Assistance from Directorate
Career Services' Career Management
Officers and Office Advisory Groups
1. As you will recall, the Management and Services Career
Board, at its meeting on 14 September 1973, requested that the
Office Advisory Groups and the Career Management Officers in the
Directorate offices be tasked to consider two issues and to come
up with some practical ideas and solutions. These issues are:
a. Developing a practical and tangible method of
recognition to an employee with the initiative to improve
his or her professional qualifications by obtaining a
college degree, principally on the employees' own time.
b. Devising a system for competitively evaluating
the relative capabilities and potentials of employees
outside of the Fitness Report system.
2. Attached is a memorandum from the DD/M&S to the Secretary
of the CIA Management Committee requesting approval to award a
Quality Step Increase for such an educational achievement. However,
,subsequent to the submission of this memorandum, 0GC has ruled that
a QSI cannot be awarded for such purposes. An alternative could be
an awarder the provisions of the Federal Awards Act, and attached
is a copy of paragraph 4503 of Title V, "Agency Awards." Under the
latter provisions, it would be a one-time cash award rather than a
continuing increase in an officer's salary. A workable schedule of
awards must be developed for employees obtaining various college
degrees (AA, AB, Masters, PhD). There are possibly other aspects of
this proposed award which should be considered by your CMO and your
Advisory Group.
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3. Also attached are several documents concerning the
Competitive Evaluation System. In August 1973, the DD/M$S directed
the adoption of the new MG Competitive Evaluation System throughout
all the Directorate Career Services. However, there is a conflict
between this s stem and the approved revisions in the Agency regula-
tions and Instructions for the Fitness Report.
By Agency regulations, the Fitness Report is designed to evaluate
employees with respect to their performance of assigned duties;
statements concerning the relative capabilities and potentia of
employees, designated to facilitate selection decisions, are not
to be recorded in Fitness Reports.
4. Now we must devise a Comparative Evaluation System, out-
side of the Fitness Report system, which can be used for comparing
the relative capabilities and potentials of employees as pertinent
to their selection for assignment advancement and retention. It
is also requested that your CMO and your Office Advisory Group con-
sider how to use the attributes listed in the recently circulated
M&S Directorate Evaluation System in recording performance evalua-
tion in the Fitness Reports.
5. It is requested that your CMO meet with the CMO/DDM$S
on Monday, 15 October 1973 at 1000 hours in the office of the
DD/M&S, Room 7D26 Headquarters, to discuss these two issues. At
that time, your CMO should have your Career Service's recommenda-
tions as we need to develop workable systems to forward to the
DD/M$S for both the recognition for college degrees and the perform-
ance/comparative evaluation systems.
Career Management Officer
Deputy Director for Management and Services
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