Posted on 05/02/2025 10:55:48 AM PDT by george76
Performance reviews
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Senior Executive Service, top bureaucrats serving throughout the government and across administrations, swelled to around 8,000 under Biden. Most live in Washington, D.C. They typically earn an annual salary between $183,000 and $250,000. An overwhelming majority, 96% .. receive above-average performance ratings even as public trust in government continues to crater.
But standards will soon tighten. It is called “forced distribution.”
The new OPM rule .. eliminates Biden-era requirements that evaluated executives based on their promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The stated goal is instead an evaluation of job performance, not political ideology. Now only top performers .. will earn top performance rankings.
“The American people deserve a federal government led by executives who are held to the highest standards,” Ezell said. “This proposed rule restores accountability, rewards true excellence, and ensures senior leaders deliver real results. OPM is proud to take this important step to strengthen performance among the highest levels of the federal workforce.”
The elite of career civil servants, these senior employees are normally little noticed and .. deep state.
no participation trophies .. top-tier performance rankings are for winners.
The new standards come as Trump continues his long march through the administrative state
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The Senior Executives Association, a trade group for federal employees with an office in downtown D.C., previously balked at proposed reforms. The head of that organization, Marcus Hill, insisted that ...
change is needed because a sclerotic establishment is undermining self-government. This is the mission of Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency.
“If the bureaucracy is in charge, then what meaning does democracy actually have?” Musk asked ...
“If the people cannot vote and have their will be decided by their elected representatives then we don’t live in a democracy.”
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
UN Agenda 21 , 2030 , Great Reset, ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
Trump needs to give priority to reviewing the performance of Kash and Blondi.
In theory, 96% of the top execs in gov’t should receive high ratings, because they should be the cream of the crop to begin with. That we immediately distrust such high ratings is indicative of the present nature of high-level government employees.
“top bureaucrats” is an oxymoron.
We apparently have a Lake Wobegon bureaucracy.
Implement the Jack Welch GE model: “Rank and Yank”.
Rank every employee in every department by performance, then fire the bottom 10%. It’s called “top grading”.
And as a GE manager told me, “there is ALWAYS a bottom 10%!”
I give them both a D.
Nice. But it won’t work. Rules won’t stop crooks from being crooks.
“In theory, 96% of the top execs in gov’t should receive high ratings, because they should be the cream of the crop to begin with.”
Nope... in the Marines, a commander may not rate the majority of his men as “above average” in their fitness reports. The USMC decided that was dishonest if everyone is above average, then the concept of average and below is meaningless. It creates more effort being given.
I think I understand the point👍the distinction would be among those who are at the upper levels to begin with, but some will be upper-upper, some just upper, and some lower-upper, with (hopefully) only a few who snuck in but don't belong in the uppers.
A similar situation would be among intellectuals, where the smart ones (top 2%) can join Mensa, but among them would be those who are "above average" among the above average, and can join Intertel (top 1%).
I see your point on that.
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