NIH Strategic Human Resource Plan Background and Executive Summary At the request of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the NIH has prepared this response setting forth the actions she can take to simplify personnel administration at the NIH. The NIH believes that the personnel system is one of the greatest impediments to the effective management of its research mission. Significant simplification of this system can be achieved within the Department, even absent legislation …showed first 75 words of 3021 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3021 total…evaluation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 "Leading People in Change: Empowerment, Commitment, Accountability," April 1993, p. vii. 2 Id. at p. vii, emphasis in the original. 3 Benowitz and Hill, "A Model for Human Resource Management at the National Institutes of Health," August 1994. 4 These criteria are also contained in an unpublished report by the Office of Personnel Management, "Rethinking Federal HRM" 5 Attached to this document is a summary of the proposed changes and citations to the relevant DHHS or PHS Personnel Instructions.