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Pay Pools Performance and You
Pay Pools, Performance, and You is an interactive web-based course designed to teach employees how the performance management and pay pool processes interact, the activities that occur during the phases, and the important role employees, rating officials and pay pool managers play in ensuring a fair and equitable system.
The course is modeled after NSPS 101 and uses virtual employees to illustrate examples of how performance management and pay pool concepts, processes and decisions affect employees. The course takes approximately one and one-half hours to complete.
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