USIA Foreign Service Personnel System: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session ... April 4, May 20, and June 26, 1968 |
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ADAIR AFGE amendment American Federation appeals procedure appointment believe bill career Foreign Service Career Reserve career status career system Chairman Civil Service Committee on Foreign competence CONGRESS LIBRARY CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressman Ashbrook DEPARTMENT ORGANIZATION Development Appraisal Reports Director embassy enactment establish February 21 Federation of Government foreign affairs Foreign Operations Foreign Service Act Foreign Service Information Foreign Service Officers Foreign Service personnel Foreign Wars FRASER FSO's Government Employees HAYS hearing Information Officer Corps legislation LEONARD FARBSTEIN LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MARKS ment MOSLEY ORGANIZATION AND FOREIGN overseas President problem promotion provisions Public Members Association rating officer record Reserve officers RIMESTAD Section 14 Selection Board system Selection Panels selection-out Service Information Officer Service personnel system Staff Consultant STOVER subcommittee tenure THOMSON tion U.S. Government U.S. Information Agency USIA Veterans of Foreign Veterans Preference Act Washington WAYNE Wayne Hays WAYNE L WESTPHAL
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Page 44 - Director with respect to the Foreign Service information officer personnel system and the Secretary of State with respect to the Foreign Service officer personnel system, after consultation with such officials as the President may determine, shall promulgate policies and regulations governing such systems. Both systems shall be administered, to the extent practicable, in conformity with general policies and regulations of the Federal Government issued in accordance with law.
Page 9 - To promote the foreign policy of the United States by strengthening and improving the Foreign Service of the United States, and for other purposes.
Page 3 - ... range of experience and contacts so vitally necessary to the effective conduct of foreign policy. (4) Meet recommendations of the Herter committee, the Advisory Commission on Information, and various other study groups that USIA career officers be given the same rights and perquisites and be subjected to the same stringent judgment of performance as personnel already in the Foreign Service.
Page 23 - ... objective," relative standing in class. Speaking frankly, the system is not much more objective than a popularity contest would be to pick the top ten per cent and the bottom ten per cent of recent Nobel Prize winners in physics or chemistry or to "select out" one out of every nine Supreme Court judges once a year.
Page 22 - Service for a few years, they "soon came to write careful and innocuous memos," to "round the sharp corners off the telegrams;" they also "learn not to make waves;" they "minimize risk-taking;" they "fear taking responsibility;" they "play the game." One officer told Professor Argyris the following: "All this talk on being open and leveling is nice — and I'm for motherhood, too. But, I can tell you, if you get the reputation of having lost some important battles — no one wants a loser. The word...
Page 22 - If I were to be very honest, I think that one reason I have succeeded is that I have learned not to be open; not to be candid. Do the powers that be realize what you fellows (turning to the staff) are implying— that we should strive to be more open? That's like asking us to commit organizational suicide.
Page 19 - ... high ratings. If a man happens to be judged at a time when he has worked for a man who doesn't understand him or who disagrees with his views, he may be "selected out" for reasons that are not sound.
Page 21 - ... selected out' for reasons which are not sound. "As a matter of fact, I think more consideration should be given to who writes the efficiency reports on Foreign Service Officers. I went over some of them a while ago, and in one case, I found that in recent years, one man had been put in the lowest 25 percentile during two years, and in another two years, he had been put in the top 10 percentile. It was the same man, a man who had been in the Service a considerable period of time, and he had not...
Page 10 - HR 12834 is in accord with the program of the President and that there is no objection to the presentation of this report. Sincerely yours, JACK HORTON, DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, DC, March 1, 1974.