Human Capital : Opm Needs To Improve The Design, Management, And Oversight Of The Federal Classification System / United States Government Accountability Office.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

United States Government Accountability Office, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Occupations--United States--Classification.

Occupations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (43 pages)

Other Title:

Human Capital

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), 2014.

Summary:

"GAO's analysis of subject matter specialists' comments, related literature, and interviews with Office of Personnel Management (OPM) officials identified a number of important characteristics for a modern, effective classification system, which GAO consolidated into eight key attributes. GAO's analysis shows that in concept the current General Schedule (GS) classification system's design incorporates several key attributes including internal and external equity, transparency, simplicity, and rank in position. However, as OPM implemented the system, the attributes of transparency, internal equity, simplicity, flexibility, and adaptability are reduced. This occurs, in part, because some attributes are at odds with one another so fully achieving one attribute comes at the expense of another. Thus, OPM, working with its stakeholders, is challenged to determine how best to optimize each attribute."-- Unedited summary from book.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), viewed March 6, 2023).