A. The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall establish standards and procedures for delegating to appointing authorities the authority to administer human resources functions normally conducted by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services. The Director shall have the authority to approve delegation applications which shall constitute authority for the agency to implement approved delegations of personnel authority.
B. The Director shall create a program to allow agencies to design model human resource projects to test and evaluate the effect of innovative policies, standards, and procedures.
The number and scope of model projects shall be limited only by the capacity of the agency to implement the model projects, the quality of model project applications, and the ability of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to monitor the projects. The Director shall have the authority to approve model project applications which shall constitute authority for the agency to implement approved model projects.
C. The Director shall create a Human Resource Management Plan and Self-Evaluation Report system for agencies including but not limited to provisions related to affirmative action; staffing, recruitment, and promotion; classification and compensation; training and staff development expenditures; the reporting of internal agency grievances and discrimination complaints filed, discharges, suspensions without pay and demotions, and number of investigations directed by the Oklahoma Merit Protection Commission and the outcome of all such actions; and strategies for assuring employee participation in the development of agency personnel activities. The self-evaluation should include comparisons with the previous year or years' personnel actions.
Added by Laws 1994, c. 242, § 5. Amended by Laws 1995, c. 310, § 2, emerg. eff. June 5, 1995; Laws 1996, c. 320, § 3, emerg. eff. June 12, 1996; Laws 2003, c. 212, § 7, eff. July 1, 2003; Laws 2012, c. 303, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 2012.