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Build policy goals into career employees' performance appraisals

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 3, p. 74. Written by Donald Devine, Dennis Dean Kirk, Paul Dans.

Build policy goals into career employees' performance appraisals

The document says “is essentialWho acts: political appointeesHow: internal managementp. 74 in the PDF
What the document says

“It is essential that political executives build policy goals directly into employee appraisals both for mission success and for employees to know what is expected.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 74

Political executives should write policy goals into the performance appraisals of career staff, take an active part in supervising those appraisals rather than delegating them to senior career managers, and reward good performers.

What the document actually says

“It is essential that political executives build policy goals directly into employee appraisals both for mission success and for employees to know what is expected.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 74
That sentence, in plain words

The president's appointees must put his goals right into workers' job reviews. That helps the work get done. It also lets workers know what is expected.

What this is about

Job reviews say how well a worker did. The book says the president's own goals should be written into those reviews. It says this tells workers what is expected of them. It also says the president's appointees should run the reviews themselves.

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