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FPCD-80-87 1 (1980-09-19)

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                   UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                           WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548

FEDERAL PERSONNEL AND
COMPNSATION DIVISION                             September 19, 1980    ojS'6)


    B-196181




    The Honorable Ruth T. Prokop
    Chair, Merit Systems Protection
       Board

    Dear Ms. Prokop:

          Subject: (First Look at Senior Executive Service
                    Performance Awards/MSPB,(FPCD-80-87)

          During July 1980, members of my staff reviewed Senior
    Executive Service (SES) bonus payments at the Merit Systems
    Protection Board (MSPB) and two other agencies as part of a
    study directed by the Congress. Results of this study are
    included in our report entitled First Look at Senior Execu-
    tive Service Performance Awards, FPCD-80-74, August 15,
    1980 (copy enclosed).

          We concluded that the performance awards were within
    the requirements of the Civil Service Reform Act, as well as
    Office of Personnel Management (OPM) guidance. But we re-
    ported that each of the ag~ncf'es experienced some procedural
    difficulties in administering these awards.

          We did not make specific recommendations to the three
    agencies in our report. However, we noted that performance
    objectives for MSPB's executives were not formulated until
    November and December of 1979 even though the performance ap-
    praisal period for which bonuses were awarded was from March
    1979 to March 1980. Thus, performance objectives were writ-
    ten nearly three-fourths of the way through the performance
    period. The Performance Review Board's action to review
    performance objectives at the beginning of the appraisal
    period will overcome this start-up difficulty.




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