Take The NASA LaRC RD Promotion Process Survey
RD Promotion Process Survey (Jan 2016), LaRC Survey at Surveymonkey
“The RD Promotion Process Team is evaluating the efficiency and transparency of the promotion process for AST’s and technicians in RD. The top-level goals of this team are to evaluate and recommend improvements to the RD promotion process that will improve the efficiency and transparency of these processes for all AST’s and technicians in RD.”
Keith’s 1 Feb update: The survey has suddenly closed. Oops.
Its about time NASA began investigating this issue. Maybe Langley is a test of a broader survey? It ought to be. I am convinced the human space flight program is failing because of poor or nonexistent management decisions being made by people who didn’t have the requisite knowledge to make decisions on its direction.
“people who didn’t have the requisite knowledge to make decisions on its direction”
There’s coffee on my screen.
it cracks me up whenever they talk about transparency and civil servant hiring/promotion processes in the same sentence.
I remember one time a NASA project manager came into my groups (contractor) working space walked up to one of my colleagues cubical and say “we want you to apply for a job requisition when it comes up in USAjobs, when you apply put these answers in the questionnaire after the application to get through the screening process.”
I reported this to my manager and we reported it to OIG hotline, nothing ever happened.
I dont know if it is like this in all the sites and organizations, but I have seen it many times where I have worked. Its not what you know, its who you know and hang out with…