Research Brief
DoD Outsourcing: How Civil Service Employees Fare
Dec 31, 1996
Impacts on Civil Service Employees
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Outsourcing of commercial activities in the Department of Defense (DoD) occurs within a well-defined legal and policy framework. This framework creates a predisposition toward outsourcing but also imposes an evolving set of exclusions and restrictions. Within this framework, DoD outsourcing has occurred on a relatively modest scale. However, DoD has recently given outsourcing renewed attention, and momentum is building for a potentially significant expansion of outsourcing. If that expansion occurs, DoD civilian personnel managers will benefit from having a greater understanding of how the process affects civil service employees. In this report, the authors review executive and legislative policy related to DoD outsourcing; present results from site visits to Army and Air Force installations where activities have been outsourced recently; and develop models useful for predicting the number of employee displacements likely to result from outsourcing studies. The authors develop recommendations for improving the productivity of the civil service workforce (making it more competitive in outsourcing cost-comparison studies) and making the cost-comparison process fairer to government employees.
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Statutes, Regulations, and Executive Policies
Chapter Three
Lessons from Site Visits
Chapter Four
Modeling the Impacts of Outsourcing on Civil Service Employees
Chapter Five
Conclusions and Recommendations
Appendix A
Methodology for Site Visits
Appendix B
Estimating the Multistage and Net-Effects Models
Appendix C
Using Equations in the Multistage Model to Predict Outcomes
Appendix D
Characteristics of Personnel Displaced Through A-76 Actions
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