Pentagon's New Personnel System: Coping with the Challenges of Human Capital
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Case Details:
Case Code : HROB114
Case Length : 21 Pages
Period : 2000-2008
Pub Date : 2008
Teaching Note :Not Available
Organization : US Department of Defense
Industry : Public sector (Defense/Others)
Countries : USA
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History of DoD
The history of DoD dated back to the American Revolution in 1775. During this period, the Marine, the Navy, and the Army departments were established. The War Department, the predecessor to the DoD, was formed in 1789. In 1798, the Department of Navy was established...
The General Schedule System
In the 1940s, the Classification Act of 1949 established the GS system. The GS
system was a pay system used for setting the salaries of the white collar
employees working in the civil services of the US federal government.
It was
managed by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the authority to
implement it lay with the Congress and the President...
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The National Security Personnel System
In 2003, the George W Bush government sought approval from the Congress to revamp the DoD's GS system with a new personnel system, the NSPS. Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz said that the NSPS had been proposed with the aim of overhauling the decades-old rules for civilians. They also said that a new system was required for protecting the security of the nation...
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DoD Unveils NSPS
On November 1, 2005, the DoD in conjunction with the OPM released the
final NSPS regulations. Despite Congress'mandatory requirement of
involving unions and incorporating suggestions from them, the DoD
allegedly ignored all the proposals put forth by the UDWC...
Conversion to NSPS
The DoD employees moving from GS to NSPS were converted without any change in the pay and roles and responsibilities (Refer to Box III for special conversion issues). However, there was an increase in pay for employees qualified for one-time, prorated Within-Grade-Increase (WGI) buy-in... |
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