By Brittany R. Ballenstedt
December 1, 2008
It's too early to tell whether the Pentagon's new personnel system has met the department's goals of motivating employees and creating more flexibility in hiring and pay decisions, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office.
The report, released on Wednesday, said implementation of the National Security Personnel System was not yet complete and not enough time had elapsed since the first employees were converted to the system to determine its effectiveness.
The department has added more than 181,500 nonbargaining unit employees to NSPS since 2006 and plans to add 20,000 more into the system by the end of 2008, bringing it close to converting all 205,000 nonbargaining unit employees. In September, the department announced it would not place its 270,000 bargaining unit employees under NSPS.
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