DHS Personnel Chief to Depart
It looks like Marta Perez, the top personnel person at the Homeland Security Department, is out, at a time when the department is struggling to integrate its operations, overhaul its proposed personnel reforms and deal with morale problems.
Here's the press release from DHS headquarters:
STATEMENT BY HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY MICHAEL CHERTOFF ON THE RESIGNATION OF THE CHIEF HUMAN CAPITAL OFFICERChief Human Capital Officer Marta Perez has announced her departure from the department effective Jan. 6, 2008. Marta’s knowledge and experience in developing and managing personnel systems has helped to make the department a model in human capital service for the federal government.
Marta set plans in motion that will ensure the department hires and retains a talented and diverse workforce. She led the way to create a department-wide culture of performance, and established high-quality learning and development programs. Under Marta’s direction, we implemented a department-wide integrated leadership system. Although Marta will be leaving soon, she leaves in place a strong transition plan and team that will carry the department through 2009 – and beyond.
I am grateful for Marta’s service and dedication to the federal government, and thank her for her contributions to America’s security. I will miss Marta personally and professionally, and wish her well in her future endeavors.
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As it has been repeated many times in the past by DHS employees, in that appointees they came and go, and while in office the create a mess that career federal employees end up paying for their failures and mistakes. Let her go find another job where she can be mouthpiece again for the Bush administration, as without qualifications, she supported a new personnel system aimed at taking basic fundamental rights from DHS employees. She is now leaving an agency with the lowest morale ever, what a shame.
Name Withheld Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 6:53 PMI use to work for DHS. The agency has to be the worse when it comes to HR. The pay system stinks, It took me almost one year to get back a double payment take out of my salary. Any personnel action was like pulling teeth. The moral in my office was awful. My peers were leaving left and right then I decided to move on.
JAJ Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:39 AMLooks like another classic example of top brass not knowing or caring about the line staff. It's basically, appointees (who have limited knowledge of real world) patting one another on the back. Will be interesting to see where she'll be hired next. Possibly a contractor of DHS? Sadly, it is too familiar throughout all agencies. Mess Up, Go Up!!
Amazed Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 12:20 PMAnd another one abandons the RMS Titanic (aka DHS)! Wasn't Ms. Perez the one who had to issue an apology to everyone in ICE after a DHS recruiting poster listed ICE under the heading of "Immigration" agencies, while listing CBP and Secret Service as "Law Enforcement" agencies within DHS? Talk about a morale killer! Ms. Perez also advocated MaxHR (since renamed to E Performance, but still much the same), it's probably for the best that she is leaving. Any chief personnel officer who doesn't know what the employees who work under them do doesn't deserve the job in the first place!
ICEman Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:47 PMWhile at OPM, Marta Perez was a very pleasant and well intentioned executive, who happened to be a protege of our former unlamented Director, Kay Coles James, but who also, unfortunately, hadn't a clue as to what the management process entailed. There was a muffled but distinct sigh of relief in the corridors of the TRB (as OPM's Headquarters building is referred to) when she transferred to DHS as their new CHCO, tempered by concern that she was going into a job where well intentrioned incompetence could actually put lives in jeopardy. I certainly wish her well in the private sector, but I'd also like to know what company she's going to work for so that I can quickly divest myself of any of its stock that I may own.
Ex-OPMer Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 5:59 PMTalk about a contradiction in reporting. The story goes - "At a time when the department is struggling to integrate its operations, overhaul its proposed personnel reforms and deal with morale problems", "Marta’s knowledge and experience in developing and managing personnel systems has helped to make the department a model in human capital service for the federal government".
DHS as a model?
So which is it? A model to follow or a model to avoid?
Mark Gibson Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:48 PMAt my DHS agency, we are under orders not to contact HR. After nearly five years since the merger, we still do not have a uniform appraisal for the 1811 series criminal investigators.
Zute Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:28 AMDoes the Secretary believe the bunk as written above?
How many different names can we come up with for a failed policy? We in the trenches are still dealing with One Face at the Border, another miserable failure. Let's face it, the biggest problem with any personnel system is the human factor. I'm dying for the results of the latest survey, if DHS has the nerve to release them. I can only hope that the truly dedicated among us can survive the Bush administration We can only hit our heads against the wall so many times before brain damage sets in.
Jeff Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:17 AMDoes this mean I will get the 3,000 FLSA that is owed to me since 2004???
Disgruntled Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:53 PMThe beatings will continue until the moral improves E-Performance at it's best.
GovExec Reader Posted Thursday, February 7, 2008 2:34 PM