The Army Research Laboratory Alternative Organizational and Management Options (1994) / Chapter Skim
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8 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
8 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Pages 137-158
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ARL has weak links to the long-range planners of the Army staff and the advanced concepts directorates of TRADOC, which could give a long-range perspective on the Army's needs. Its long-range perspective is currently supporter} with its seminar wargames, its participation in writing planning documents such as the Army Science and Technology Master Plan, and the direction provided by the AMC Board of Directors.
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Increasingly, it must compete with other AMC and DOD organizations for funding in both categories. With institutional funding for $200 million in basic research and exploratory development, ARE, probably cannot support excellent research in each of its 10 broad business areas.
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Regardless of this difficulty, ARL as now constituted does not present a promising field for total quality management. Its administrative procedures, as explained earlier in this chapter, are too rigid and unresponsive to permit the management and worker accountability and authority that are vital to continuous quality improvement.
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As a government-operated laboratory, the goal for ARL should be to create a personnel demonstration project like that established for NIST by an act of Congress in 198S, with such features as a more flexible pay system, decentralized hiring authority, no limits on the number of higher grade positions, rank order evaluation of staff, extra tenure credit for high performance, and three-year probation periods for new hires (see Chapter 4~. This demonstration will have benefits and costs.
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. Since all personnel in the GOCO ARL option and the contracted centers of the ARL Multicenter option would be in the private sector, these reforms would be inherently implemented.
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NIST Option This option has a substantial advantage over the ARL Enhancer} baseline in its personnel procedures, which would give laboratory managers the ability to hire and reward technical workers to meet their needs in a timely way, rather than accepting detailed and time-consuming direction from above. It also would benefit from the advice of the two-tiered advisory system.
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. But this option would be stronger by nearly every criterion than the ARL Enhanced baseline, and the equal of every other option (except possibly in technology transfer to the Army, where it might be arguably inferior to the internal options)
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The ARL Enhanced option itself would require extraordinarily strong support, judging from ARL's inability thus far to implement the Lab Demo initiatives that are at the option's heart. The NIST ARL, ARL Multicenter, and GOCO ARL options would all be major improvements over the current situation, and ad three have the potential to produce a worId-ciass laboratory.
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