Stabilization and Reconstruction Staffing - RAND Corporation

70 Stabilization and Reconstruction Staffing: Developing U.S. Civilian Personnel••the structure and processes required for any staff to functionqualified personnel to fill the positions on that staff.Our primary focus in the following discussion falls on the secondof these two elements, talent management, with the understandingthat the first element will at times place constraints or demands on thepersonnel-staffing issue.To shape this discussion, we found it helpful to identify approachesto talent management specifically for fielding civilian staffs. We presentand analyze three approaches. These approaches are neither an exhaustiveset of options nor mutually exclusive, but they represent the majorapproaches that surfaced in the course of our interviews. Some of theseoptions may require changes in current laws, regulations, and personnelpolicies. We also describe the government’s accountability systemthat monitors and analyzes the performance of all aspects of humancapital management.Potential Approaches to Talent ManagementThe U.S. government could field civilian staffs by1.2.3.requiring U.S. government civilian employees to deploy onSSTR operations as neededproviding sufficient incentives to cause civilians in the publicand private sectors to volunteer for deploymentsestablishing standing contracts with public- and privatesectorcivilians or private companies for deployment on SSTRoperations.We describe what each approach involves, in turn.Requiring U.S. government civilian employees to deploy. Thisapproach, if applied broadly to the U.S. government civilian workforce,would likely have negative effects. 16 Most civilian governmentworkers do not expect to be deployed to austere and dangerous places.16 Interview with senior U.S. Army civilian personnel manager, July 6, 2005. Interview withsenior OPM official November 16, 2005.