longknife
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In other words, tell it like it is. No more cut and paste evaluations.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has ordered federal agencies to apply "rigorous performance standards" when rating employees, calling for tougher assessments used in deciding promotions, cash bonuses and disciplinary measures such as firing.
"Agencies should ensure only employees who have demonstrated the highest levels of individual performance receive the highest annual ratings of record and the highest performance awards," said one of a pair of memos issued late last week.
And the unions aren’t exactly thrilled by that.
A 2018 OPM report showed that in 2016, 51.7 percent of the 6,600 career executives were rated as outstanding, 40.7 percent as exceeds fully successful, 7.2 percent as fully successful, and 0.4 percent as either minimally successful or unacceptable.
Are you telling me that 90% of government employees are doing their job that well?
Okay, here’s my 2 cents.
Employees are rated to make their bosses look good.
If you declare that someone isn’t doing their job up to par, the question arises as to what you, as the supervisor, are doing to improve that job performance.
Having written countless performance evaluations I can tell you that 99% of them have the same platitudes.
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