Providing for the Further Training of Government Employees
EO 11348 20 Apr 67
PART I--GENERAL
PART
II--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
PART III--AGENCY
RESPONSIBILITIES AND OPERATIONS
PART IV--DELEGATIONS
PART V--REVOCATION OF PRIOR
ORDER
Source: The provisions of Executive Order 11348 of Apr. 20,
1967, appear at 32 FR 6335, 3 CFR, 1966-1970 Comp., p. 639, unless otherwise
noted. By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of Title
3 of the United States Code and by section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1958
(72 Stat. 327), it is ordered as follows:
PART I--GENERAL
Sec. 101.
- As used in this order, the terms "agency", "employee",
"Government", and "training" have the meanings
given to those terms, respectively, by section 4101 of Title 5, United
States Code.
- "Interagency training" means training provided by one
agency for other agencies or shared by two or more agencies.
Sec. 102. It is the policy of the Government of the
United States to develop its employees through the establishment and
operation of progressive and efficient training programs, thereby improving
public service, increasing efficiency and economy, building and retaining
a force of skilled and efficient employees, and installing and using
the best modern practices and techniques in the conduct of the Government's
business.
Sec. 103. The Office of Personnel Management shall
provide leadership and guidance to insure that the policy set forth
in section 102 is carried out.
(Sec. 103 amended by EO 12107 of Dec. 28, 1978, 44 FR 1055, 3 CFR,
1978 Comp., p. 264)
PART II--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
Sec. 201. The Office of Personnel Management shall plan and
promote the development, improvement, coordination, and evaluation of
training in accordance with chapter 41 of Title 5, United States Code,
and with the policy set forth in section 102 of this order.
(Title and sec. 201 amended by EO 12107 of Dec. 28, 1978, 44 FR 1055,
3 CFR 1978 Comp., p. 264)
Sec. 202. In carrying out its responsibilities under
chapter 41 of Title 5, United States Code, and section 201 of this order,
the Office shall:
- Advise the President on means for furthering and strengthening
programs of training;
- Counsel heads of agencies and other agency officials on the improvement
of training;
- Assist agencies to develop sound programs and financial plans for
training and provide advice, information, and assistance to agencies
on planning, programming, budgeting, operating, and evaluating training
programs;
- Identify functional areas in which new or expanded interagency
training activity is needed and either conduct such training or arrange
for agencies having the substantive competence to do so;
- Coordinate interagency training conducted by and for agencies (including
agencies and portions of agencies excepted by section 4102(a) of Title
5, United States Code);
- (Encourage agencies to make appropriate use of non-Government training
resources;
- Develop, install, and maintain a system to provide the training
data needed to carry out its own functions and to provide staff assistance
to the President; and
- Provide for identification and dissemination of findings of research
into training technology and undertake, or assign to other agencies,
such research projects as may be needed.
(Sec. 202 amended by EO 12107 of Dec. 28, 1978, 44 FR 1055, 3 CFR,
1978 Comp., p. 264)
PART III--AGENCY RESPONSIBILITIES AND OPERATIONS
Sec. 301. The head of each agency shall plan, program,
budget, operate, and evaluate training programs in accordance with chapter
41 of Title 5, United States Code, and with the policy set forth in
section 102 of this order.
Sec. 302. The head of each agency shall:
- Foster employee self-development by creating a work environment
in which self-development is encouraged, by assuring that opportunities
for training and self-study materials are reasonably available where
the employee is stationed, and by recognizing self-initiated improvement
in performance;
- Provide training for employees without regard to race, creed, color,
national origin, sex, or other factors unrelated to the need for training;
- Establish and make full use of agency facilities for training employees;
- Extend agency training programs to employees of other agencies
(including agencies and portions of agencies excepted by section 4102(a)
of Title 5, United States Code) and assign his employees to interagency
training whenever this will result in better training, improved service,
or savings to the Government;
- Establish interagency training facilities in areas of substantive
competence as arranged by the Office of Personnel Management; and
- Use non-Government training resources as appropriate.
(Sec. 302 amended by EO 12107 of Dec. 28, 1978, 44 FR 1055, 3 CFR,
1978 Comp., p. 264)
Sec. 303. In carrying out his responsibilities, the
head of each agency shall, consonant with chapter 41 of Title 5, United
States Code, this order, and regulations of the Office of Personnel
Management:
- Review periodically, but not less often than annually, the agency's
program to identify training needed to bring about more effective
performance at the least possible cost;
- Conduct periodic reviews of individual employee's training needs
as related to program objectives;
- Conduct research related to training objectives and required for
program improvement and effectiveness;
- Plan, program, and evaluate training for both short and long-range
program needs by occupations, organizations, or other appropriate
groups;
- Establish priorities for needed training, and provide for the use
of funds and man hours in accordance with these priorities;
- Utilize the flexibility of work assignments to provide work experience
which promotes growth leading to higher quality and greater quantity
of work done;
- Establish training facilities and services as needed;
- Monitor the effectiveness with which self-development is encouraged
and on-the-job training is provided at all levels;
- Establish criteria for the selection of employees for training;
and
- Approve the acceptance of any contributions, awards, or payments
to employees authorized by section 401(b) of this order and regulations
issued by the Office of Personnel Management.
(Sec. 303 amended by EO 12107 of Dec. 28, 1978, 44 FR 1055, 3 CFR,
1978 Comp., p. 264)
PART IV--DELEGATIONS
Sec. 401. The following functions vested in the President
are hereby delegated to the Office of Personnel Management:
- The authority under section 4102(b)(1) of Title 5, United States
Code, to designate any agency or part thereof, or any employee or
employees therein, as excepted from any provision of chapter 41 of
Title 5, United States Code, other than section 4102, 4111(b), and
4112; and to designate any such agency or part thereof, or any employee
or employees therein previously excepted, as again subject to chapter
41 of Title 5, United States Code, or any provision of that chapter.
- The authority under section 4111(a) of Title 5, United States code,
to fix by regulation the extent to which the contributions, awards,
and payments referred to in that section may be made to and accepted
by employees.
(Sec. 401 amended by EO 12107 of Dec. 28, 1978, 44 FR 1055, 3 CFR,
1978 Comp., p. 264)
Sec. 402. The authority vested in the President by
section 4101(6)(B) of Title 5, United States Code, to designate a foreign
government or international organization or instrumentality of either
as eligible to provide training, is hereby delegated to the head of
each agency for his employees except that each such designation shall
be made only after the agency head concerned has obtained and given
due consideration to the advice of the Department of State thereon prior
to the first use of such training facility and thereafter periodically
but not less often than every three years.
Sec. 501. Executive Order No. 10800 of January 15, 1959,
is hereby revoked.