Posted on 03/18/2018 4:43:55 PM PDT by ptsal
Okay this is from Dec. 15, 2015 but it sure is relevant.
President Obama on Tuesday signed a long-awaited executive order on strengthening the Senior Executive Service that streamlines recruiting and hiring while raising the aggregate spending cap on executive performance awards from the current 4.8 percent cap to 7.5 percent.
**snip**The impetus for the hike, the order said, is to “retain and reward more top performers” among SES and senior level/scientific or professional employees. “The heads of agencies with SES positions that supervise General Schedule employees will implement policies for initial pay setting and pay adjustments, as appropriate, for career SES so their compensation will exceed that of their subordinate GS employees,” the order stated.
...snip...The executive order requires agencies to implement procedures to streamline the hiring process, develop a plan to increase rotations of SES members to differing agencies (as the corps was originally envisioned), boost aggregate spending on performance awards and “increase the initial basic rate of pay to ensure SES/SL/ST earn more than General Schedule employees where they work,” the White House said.
(Excerpt) Read more at govexec.com ...
Can you remember that graphic you posted about the BRIDGE that was a smallish org chart -a radial one - that might relate to SES? You posted it about a week ago? It was unusual, not symmetric.
Right, the goal of rewarding your confederates. I ran a business for 30 years and rewarded the folks who worked for me. It’s the same thing. How is that stupid?
I thought you meant the goal of having a Senior Executive Service.
That’s the goal I’m calling stupid.
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