Charge all federal agency heads with the responsibility for ensuring equal opportunity Charge all federal agency heads with the responsibility for ensuring equal opportunity and increasing integration of qualified women, minorities, and persons with disabilities into all levels and job categories, including middle and senior management positions. The President should issue an Executive Order to all agency heads by fall 1994 stating his commitment to attaining a diverse federal workforce and increasing the representation of qualified minorities, women, and disabled persons at all levels, including higher levels at which they are most underrepresented. The Executive Order should also establish the requirement that each agency head should: --- build EEO and affirmative employment elements into the agency's strategic business plan and include effective measurements for impact and change; --- require executives, managers, and supervisors to develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate the organization's affirmative employment plans; --- ensure that a critical element on EEO, affirmative employment, and diversity is built into the performance plans and evaluations of all managers and supervisors; --- ensure that the director of EEO reports directly to the agency head and is a full participant on the senior management team(s) responsible for all resource allocations; --- demonstrate a commitment to EEO and affirmative employment and provide employees a visible sign of credible efforts through such actions as annual policy statements on equal employment opportunity and affirmative employment; --- identify qualified, as well as high-potential, women, minority, and disabled candidates and implement developmental programs to provide opportunities to effectively prepare them to compete for and hold executive leadership positions; and --- provide recognition of those managers and organizations that consistently perform well in the EEO and affirmative employment areas, and ensure appropriate disciplinary action in cases where there is a finding of discrimination. Presidential leadership and an Executive Order that mandates management accountability for equal employment opportunity goals and accomplishments will reassure employees, applicants, and the American public that there is governmentwide commitment to and accountability for creating a federal workforce that reflects America's diverse citizenry.
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