Insert political policy goals into career employee performance appraisals
Mandate says political executives should build policy goals directly into employee appraisals, take an active role supervising career appraisals, and not unduly delegate to senior career managers.
Mandate
Mandate Ch. 3 (Central Personnel Agencies) — Performance Appraisal: essential that political executives build policy goals directly into employee appraisals for mission success; political executives should take active role supervising performance appraisals of career staff, not unduly delegate to senior career managers.
Undo plan
1) Prohibit conditioning career appraisals on partisan loyalty or non-statutory political agendas.
2) Restore appraisal standards tied to merit system principles and lawful agency missions.
3) Require written separation between political priorities and prohibited personnel practices.
4) Empower OSC to investigate politicized appraisals as PPPs.
5) Verify: random OSC/MSPB audit of appraisal plans for political content.