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OPA News Release: [01/24/2002]
Contact Name: Paul Borchers
Phone Number: (202) 693-4676
Release
Number: 02-0053-NAT
Chao Implements President Bush's Management
Agenda
Promotes Performance And Effective Management
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao today
announced a series of human capital initiatives at the department to help carry
out the President's Management Agenda.
"In any large and complex organization, people are key to
accomplishing positive change," Chao said. "Recruiting and retaining
talented people is essential for building our human capital."
Chao's initiatives include:
- establishing a uniform performance management system for the
department's approximately 2,100 senior executives, managers and
supervisors;
- providing significant new funding to reward senior executives for
achieving results; and
- instituting a department-wide Senior Executive Service development
program to build a strong team for the future.
In August 2001, Chao directed the Management Review Board (MRB) to
develop a uniform performance management system, urging that the new system
achieve President Bush's goal of promoting a culture of achievement.
As a result of work by the MRB and the department's Executive
Resources Board (ERB), today Chao announced the adoption of the new unified
performance management system. It will replace the multiplicity of approaches
in existence at various departmental agencies facilitate higher standards of
performance within the Department of Labor.
"The department is working to meet the president's challenge to
think differently by refining our performance goals and measures under the
Government Performance and Results Act. A few simple measures with a system of
rewards and accountability will foster a culture of excellence within the
Federal government," Chao said.
To encourage performance and results, Chao established a 7.5 percent
performance award pool for senior executives, a significant increase from
previous allocations.
Chao also directed that a departmental Senior Executive Service
candidate development program be implemented as part of the department's
succession planning and human capital management initiatives. This program will
help ensure that a highly qualified and diverse cadre of candidates is prepared
and available to assume leadership roles behind departing senior
executives.
Earlier in the year, Chao reconstituted the department's Performance
Review Board, chaired by Deputy Secretary D. Cameron Findlay, and the Executive
Resources Board, chaired by Assistant Secretary for Administration and
Management Patrick Pizzella. These boards provide guidance and direction to the
multitude of initiatives and programs that affect the department's Senior
Executive Service members. The boards were reconstituted in conjunction with
the establishment of the Management Review Board, which is comprised of senior
DOL officials who address management issues affecting the Department of
Labor.
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