scope:

Purpose.

The purpose of this regulation is to implement a Senior Executive Service (SES) in the Army which will:

a. Establish a compensation system, including salaries, benefits, and incentives, and for other employment conditions designed to attract, develop, and retain highly competent senior executives:

b. Relate compensation, retention, and tenure with executive effectiveness based on individual and organizational performance;

c Make senior executives fully accountable and responsible for the effectiveness and productivity of personnel under them;

d. Protect senior executives from arbitrary and capricious actions;

e. Maintain a merit system free of prohibited personnel practices;

f. Ensure compliance with all applicable civil service laws, rules, and regulations; and

g. Provide for systematic development of senior executives.