Director of the Office of Personnel Management
Executive orders directing the Director of the Office of Personnel Management · 10 in Reagan · 185 all terms.
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10 shown · Reagan
Assignment of emergency preparedness responsibilities
This executive order assigns comprehensive emergency preparedness responsibilities across all federal departments and agencies for national security emergencies, including nuclear attack, natural disasters, and technological emergencies. It establishes the National Security Council as the principal policy forum, designates FEMA's Director as NSC advisor, and details specific lead and support roles for each Cabinet department in areas such as continuity of government, resource management, agriculture, energy, health services, and defense production.
Productivity improvement program for the Federal Government
This executive order establishes a government-wide program requiring all executive departments and agencies to improve productivity by 3 percent annually in functions that provide services to the public, with full coverage required by 1991. Agencies must submit annual productivity plans to OMB, include quality and timeliness goals in manager performance appraisals, and report progress through a structured review process.
Integrity and Efficiency in Federal Programs
This executive order establishes the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency as an interagency committee to coordinate government-wide efforts against fraud, waste, and abuse in federal programs. It also creates a Coordinating Conference to extend these efforts to additional agencies with audit and investigative resources, while revoking the previous EO 12301 from 1981.
Noncompetitive conversion to career status of certain employees in professional and administrative career positions
This executive order creates a pathway for certain Schedule B professional and administrative career employees to be converted noncompetitively to permanent career status at the GS-9 level, contingent on meeting OPM qualifications and passing a formal performance evaluation by their employing agency.
Drug-Free Federal Workplace
This executive order mandates a drug-free workplace across the Executive Branch by prohibiting illegal drug use by federal employees on or off duty, requiring agencies to develop testing programs for sensitive positions, establishing voluntary testing, and creating Employee Assistance Programs for rehabilitation. It sets procedures for testing, confidentiality protections, and personnel actions ranging from mandatory counseling to removal for employees who use illegal drugs.
President's Commission on Executive Exchange
This executive order continues the President's Commission on Executive Exchange, a program that places senior private sector executives in federal government positions and senior federal executives in private sector roles for up to one year. It also establishes an international embassy assignments program and an education component, with administrative support from the Office of Personnel Management.
Overseas employment
This executive order creates a pathway for family members of U.S. civilian employees, nonappropriated fund employees, and uniformed service members to gain competitive civil service status upon returning from overseas employment. Eligible individuals who complete 18 months of satisfactory overseas service can be appointed noncompetitively to competitive service positions within the United States, subject to qualifications set by the Office of Personnel Management.
Charitable fund-raising
This executive order establishes the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), an annual workplace solicitation program allowing voluntary health and welfare agencies to raise funds from federal employees and uniformed service members. The OPM Director sets eligibility criteria, ensures voluntary participation without coercion, and may authorize local organizations to manage campaigns. It revokes the prior Executive Order 10927 while allowing its directives to continue temporarily.
Federal procurement reforms
This 1982 executive order directs federal agencies to reform procurement practices by reducing administrative burdens, strengthening competition, simplifying small purchases, ensuring timely contractor payments, and creating professional procurement workforces. It mandates completion of a unified Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) by year-end 1982 and assigns coordination roles to OMB, OPM, and the Defense/GSA/NASA triumvirate.
The Foreign Service of the United States
This executive order delegates presidential authority under the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to the Secretary of State, establishes pay grades for the Senior Foreign Service, creates two boards (Board of Examiners and Board of the Foreign Service), and sets procedures for interagency coordination on personnel matters and retirement system alignment.