[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR251.201]

[Page 84]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 251_AGENCY RELATIONSHIPS WITH ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING FEDERAL 
EMPLOYEES AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart B_Relationships With Organizations Representing Federal 
                    Employees and Other Organizations
 
Sec. 251.201  Associations of management officials and/or supervisors.


    (a) As part of agency management, supervisors and managers should be 
included in the decision-making process and notified of executive-level 
decisions on a timely basis. Each agency must establish and maintain a 
system for intra-management communication and consultation with its 
supervisors and managers. Agencies must also establish consultative 
relationships with associations whose membership is primarily composed 
of Federal supervisory and/or managerial personnel, provided that such 
associations are not affiliated with any labor organization and that 
they have sufficient agency membership to assure a worthwhile dialogue 
with executive management. Consultative relationships with other non-
labor organizations representing Federal employees are discretionary.
    (b) Consultations should have as their objectives the improvement of 
managerial effectiveness and the working conditions of supervisors and 
managers, as well as the identification and resolution of problems 
affecting agency operations and employees, including supervisors and 
managers.
    (c) The system of communication and consultation should be designed 
so that individual supervisors and managers are able to participate if 
they are not affiliated with an association of management officials and/
or supervisors. At the same time, the voluntary joining together of 
supervisory and management personnel in groups of associations shall not 
be precluded or discouraged.