Manpower
Classification & Position Management
100

Employees hired under this U.S. Code Title are classified as Dual Status Technicians and are required to maintain military membership in the National Guard as a condition of their civilian employment.

What is Title 32?

100

This is the official document that certified by a supervisor and a classifier, serves as the legal and administrative foundation defining a position's title, occupational series, and grade.

What is a Position Description?

200

Unlike Title 32 technicians, federal employees hired under this U.S. Code Title do not have a military membership requirement and are strictly civilian personnel.

What is Title 5?

200

Found at the end of most Position Descriptions, this famous catch-all phrase is legally intended only for minor, temporary, or incidental tasks, not for regular, recurring duties that could impact the job's grade.

What is "Other duties as assigned"?

300

Serves as the baseline for Air National Guard hiring, this primary manpower document lists all funded and unfunded authorizations, detailing grades, positions, and AFSCs for a unit.

What is the Unit Manning Document?

300

If a technician believes their position has been incorrectly graded or assigned to the wrong occupational series, they have the statutory right to file this formal administrative challenge

A Classification Appeal

400

What key term is used to describe "spaces"?

Required/Requirement

400

Under federal position management guidelines, supervisors are required to maintain this structural metric—representing the ratio of supervisors to subordinates—at the highest efficient level to prevent excessive layers of management.

What is Span of Control?

500

This term describes the specific percentage of a unit's validated manpower requirements that Congress actually funds for hire each fiscal year, directly limiting a supervisor's ability to fill vacant slots.

What is a Managed Level of Resource?

500

According to OPM classification standards, for a specific task to be classified as a "Major Duty" and actually influence the final pay grade of a position, it must generally consume at least this percentage of the employee's total work time.

What is 25 percent?

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