Department of Homeland Security Developing Its Human Resource Management System
Dianne Brown Maranto
APA Science Directorate
The Department of Homeland Securitys (DHS) Human Resource Management System Senior Review Advisory Committee (SRC) met for the first time July 25 in Washington, DC. This committee is charged with oversight of DHSs development of its own human resource management system (HRMS) and consists of high-level staff from the independent agencies that were subsumed under DHS (e.g., Transportation Security Agency, Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Secret Service). They have an HRMS design team that has already begun work to this end, mostly by gathering information from DHS staff and from subject matter experts (SIOP members
David Pollack and Elaine Pulakos among them).
DHS is authorized to develop its own HRMS, which will function independently from the Office of Personnel Management, in the following six areas: pay, classification, performance management, labor relations, discipline, and appeals. For the six areas, theyve defined each in terms of its system elements. The design teams charge is to develop several options in these six areas for the SRC to consider. Their goal is to develop the options by this fall. At some point, either all the options, or the system the SRC chooses, will be published in the federal register for public review and comment. The SRC will review the options according to a set of guiding principles that are being developed by another subgroup of staff, to reflect the authorizing legislation for DHS and Secretary Ridge and Director James.
At this writing, the activities of this group are not posted on the DHS Web site
(http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/ ). Ill post updates on the PSWIN electronic mailing list
(http://listserve.apa.org/archives/PSWIN.html).
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