Foundation for NASA HR
The role of this person is to build and engage workforce, interpret objectives, policies; select, appraise, train, motivate, promote, counsel, and discipline etc.
What is a supervisor?
This contract between the union and management establishes (some) "conditions of employment" that apply to bargaining unit employees
What is a Collective Bargaining Agreement?
A NASA Jobs website, USA Jobs online resume builder, vacancy announcement library, weighting and referral tool
What is the Staffing and Recruiting System (STaRS)?
A process through which Federal jobs are assigned to a pay system, series, title, and grade, based on consistent application of standards
What is a Position Classification?
The number of supervisory and management training hours required in the first 6 months
What is 40?
Safety, Teamwork, Excellence, and Integrity
What are NASA's Core Values?
This program allows an employee to donate his/her annual leave directly to another employees who has exhausted his/her available paid leave
What is the Voluntary Leave Transfer Program?
This consideration covers positions for which it is impractical to hold any examination and that are not confidential or policy-making
What is Schedule A?
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This was the original name for NASA
What is National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)?
The number of months the probationary period lasts
What is 12 months?
President Garfield’s assassination motivated the replacement of a patronage system with this
What is the Merit System Principles?
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Acronym for a good performance element
What is SMART? Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Results-oriented, Time-based
A description of the minimum requirements necessary to perform work of a particular occupation successfully and safely
What are Qualification Standards?
This person is responsible for the accuracy of the Position Description
Who is the supervisor?
The number of performance reviews annually required by regulation
What is 2, midpoint and final?
Federal HR policy originates from these two sources
Who are Congress and the President of the U.S.?
This shape prefers a planned, regular, life where everything is predictable
What is a square?
This is critical in helping to demonstrate that the selection process is based on job-related factors and is nondiscriminatory
What is documentation?
A written statement from an employee requesting different pay plan, series and/or grade
What is a Classification Appeal?
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This space shuttle made the most flights
What is the Discovery – 39 flights?
Supervisors are the link to these five components in the organization
What are peers, labor union, employees, contractors, and Leadership?
This approach to effective management begins with an understanding of the need to begin a supervisor’s new journey with clear instructions as to role and responsibilities as well as exposure to the fundamentals of communication, problem solving and conflict resolution
What is a tactical approach?
This priority consideration requires the selection of a well-qualified surplus or displaced internal Agency employee in the local commuting area who applies for a vacant position, before selecting any other candidate from either within or outside the Agency
What is CTAP (Career Transition Assistance Program)?
This agency is the final adjudicator of employee classification appeals.
What is the Office of Personnel Management?
The frequency in which Position Descriptions need to be re-certified in ePDS
What is 3 years?