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PAD-530 V.A. Policies Regarding Unions, Privatization, Pensions, and Week 9 Assignment #4

An assignment on public administration policies related to unions and pensions.

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    V.A. POLICIES REGARDING UNIONS, PRIVATIZATION, PENSIONS, AND… 1 V.A. POLICIES REGARDING UNIONS, PRIVATIZATION, PENSIONS, AND. Week 9 Assignment #4 Joseph Brown Dr. Udoh E. Udom PAD - 5 3 0 March 10 , 201 3 In your opinion, how do the policies of the Veterans Affairs (VA) regarding unions, privatization, pensions, and productivity evaluations contribute to the overall effectiveness and service delivery to U.S. veterans? Additionally, suggest three strategies that the VA could implement to improve its approach to performance evaluation and productivity. Your response should be well - supported with examples from the provided material and should meet a minimum word count of 500 words.

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    V.A. POLICIES REGARDING UNIONS, PRIVATIZATION, PENSIONS, AND… 2 THE VETERANS AFFAIRS AND THE UNIONS To better identify problems and craft solutions, promote productivity and to have the best service deliver ed to our nation’s veterans; the Veterans Affairs and the Union have to agree that such quality of service can only be a chieves by constructive and cooperative working relationship between both parties. Furthermore , such working relationship should be constructed on a solid foundation of trust, common grounds, and with a shared responsibility for departmental success. According to the Master Agreement Handbook between the Veterans Affairs and the American Federation of Government Employees, the three policies and proced ures of the Veterans Affairs regarding the Union are: “ De tails and Temporary Promotions, Alternative Dispute Resolution , and Discipline and Adverse Action ”(VA & AFGE 2011 P.10 ) . Details and Temporary Promotions: The pur pose of this policy is to explain rights and responsibilities related to management’s right to effect details and temporary promotions. “ The world “detail” refers to temporary assignment of an employee to a different position f or a specified period of time; with the employee returning to their regular duties at the end of the detail ” (VA & AFGE 2011 P.41 ) . Nevertheless , before such temporary assignment or promotion can go in to effect , management would have to give both the Union (AFGE) and the employee a two weeks’ notice prior to the effective date of the temporary assignment or promotion. Both management and the employee have responsibilities in ensuring that all temporary assignments and promotions go accordingly. M anagement responsibilities are as follows: Managers must document all temporary assignments and promotions longer than one week in Office of Personnel File; Analyze temporary assignments and promotions outside duty station and allow duty time for travel as needed. Employee s on the other hand should document their temporary assignm ents and their promotions of less than one week in electronic Office of Personnel File.

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