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Agency Response Dated December 16, 2024: NRC initiated an evaluation of the Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) Process in October 2022. The evaluation was conducted by Pacific Research and Evaluation (PRE) and was recently completed. The evaluation report was finalized in April 2024, and the agency is currently developing plans for the implementation of
recommendations from the evaluation, which will support enhancement of the process guidance and development of a new software application to the agency’s execution of the process. Target Completion Date: June 30, 2025
OIG Analysis: The proposed actions meet the intent of this recommendation. The OIG will close this recommendation after reviewing the updated guidance and verifying that it
addresses specific issues identified in the audit finding and recommendation.
Agency Response NRC initiated an evaluation of the SWP Process in October Dated May 31, 2024: 2022. The evaluation was conducted by Pacific Research and Evaluation (PRE) and was recently completed. The evaluation report was finalized in April 2024, and the agency is currently developing plans for the implementation of recommendations from the evaluation, which will support enhancement of the process guidance and development of a new software application to the agency’s execution of the process. Target Date for Completion: September 30, 2025. ADAMS Accession No: ML24176A130. https://adamsxt.nrc.gov/navigator/AdamsXT/content/downloadContent.faces?objectStoreName=MainLibrary&vsId=%7bE1E82F66-0717-C424-864F-904B15500000%7d&ForceBrowserDownloadMgrPrompt=false
OIG Analysis: The proposed actions meet the intent of this recommendation. The OIG will close this recommendation upon reviewing the finalized Enhanced Strategic Workforce Planning: Office Director and Regional Administrator Guidance. |
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Update the Enhanced Strategic Workforce Planning: Office Director and Regional Administrator Guidance to provide specific methodologies, detailed instructions, measurement criteria, and scales that can be used to estimate the anticipated level of workload change, ranking of position risk factors, and prioritization of workforce gaps or surpluses;
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Agency Response Dated December 16, 2024: Leveraging insights from the completed evaluation, the agency is considering recommended approaches for the estimation of attrition rates within the SWP process. The methodology that will be utilized moving forward, as reflected in the enhanced process guidance that is under development, will consider both retirement and
non-retirement attrition rates, in accordance with, the OIG recommendation.
Target Completion Date: June 30, 2025
OIG Analysis: The proposed actions meet the intent of this recommendation. The OIG will close this recommendation after reviewing the updated guidance and verifying changes
to the strategic workforce planning process that incorporate retirement and non-retirement attrition information.
Agency Response Leveraging insights from the completed evaluation, the Dated May 31, 2024: agency is considering recommended approaches for the estimation of attrition rates within the SWP process. The methodology that will be utilized moving forward, as
reflected in the enhanced process guidance that is under development, will consider both retirement and nonretirement attrition rates, in accordance with, the OIG recommendation. Target Date for Completion: September 30, 2027.
OIG Analysis: The proposed actions meet the intent of this recommendation. The OIG will close this recommendation upon reviewing the finalized Enhanced Strategic Workforce Planning: Office Director and Regional Administrator Guidance. |
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Update the Enhanced Strategic Workforce Planning: Office Director and Regional Administrator Guidance to incorporate attrition rates so that the NRC quantifies and considers non-retirement separations in workforce planning.
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Agency Response Dated December 16, 2024: Information on the NRC Human Capital Operating Plan has been integrated into Management Directive 6.10 “Strategic Planning.” The management directive is with the Office of the Executive Director for Operations to finish the
publication process. With this update, the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer (OCHCO) considers this recommendation closed, as no further action is required.
OIG Analysis: A draft version of Management Directive 6.10, “Strategic Planning,” is currently in the NRC management concurrence process. The OIG will close this recommendation once the directive’s final version takes effect.
Agency Response Information on the NRC Human Capital Operating Plan Dated May 31, 2024: will be included in the forthcoming revision to
Management Directive 6.10, “Strategic Planning," which is scheduled to be updated in calendar year 2024. Target Date for Completion: September 30, 2024.
OIG Analysis: The proposed actions meet the intent of this recommendation. The OIG will close this recommendation upon reviewing the finalized Management Directive 6.10, Strategic Planning, updated to include Human Capital Operating Plan (HCOP) in accordance with the Office of Personnel Management’s Human Capital Operating Plan Guidance: Fiscal Years 2022-2026. |
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Update agency policy and procedures to include Human Capital Operating Plan information—specifically, information regarding the periodicity of the plan’s review, approval, and updating—in accordance with the Office of Personnel Management’s Human Capital Operating Plan Guidance: Fiscal Years 2022-2026.
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