General Questions
Questions and answers
No. The statute requires that each employee be
appraised against his or her performance standard(s). It does not
allow
for appraising an employee by "presuming" that an employee is
meeting performance standards. For the same reason, the process
for appraising
employees described by the regulations at part 430 of title
5, Code
of Federal Regulations, does not provide for any "assumed" levels
of performance. However, this requirement to rate should not be
interpreted
as a requirement to generate lengthy written justification of
element appraisals
and summary level assignment. Agencies may choose to make
recording the
determination that performance meets the Fully Successful standard
a very simple procedure.