1. Be responsible for the development of an efficient and effective system of personnel administration that meets the management needs of the various agencies;

2. Organize the Office to provide both service and regulatory functions that are effective and efficient in meeting the management needs of various state agencies. The Director is directed to establish an agency service function to assist agencies with human resource needs based upon the administrative capacity and resources of the various agencies;

3. Prepare, maintain, and revise a system of employment designed to ensure the impartial consideration of applicants for employment and to protect state employees from arbitrary dismissal or unfair treatment;

4. Develop and maintain a classification and compensation system for all positions in the executive branch of state government including those established by the Oklahoma Constitution;

5. Conduct an analysis of the rates of pay prevailing in the state in the public and private sectors for comparable jobs and report the findings to the Governor, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives no later than December 1 of each year. Such analysis shall include all forms of compensation including fringe benefits. Information solicited by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services from public and private sector employers for such analysis, including but not limited to salaries, benefits, and compensation policies and procedures, shall be confidential and shall not be subject to disclosure under the Oklahoma Open Records Act;¹

6. Assist state agencies in implementing their duties and obligations and provide standard forms to the agencies if necessary;

7. Develop, in cooperation with appointing authorities, employee training programs, management training programs, a certified public manager program, a recruiting program, and a system of performance appraisals, and assist appointing authorities in the setting of productivity goals. The Director may establish and collect fees for participation in training programs. The Director is authorized to purchase awards for presentation to state employees as part of employee recognition activities sponsored by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services;

8. Establish rules for leave and pay including, but not limited to, rules for leave, furloughs, performance pay increases, rates for pay differentials, on-call pay, and other types of pay incentives and salary adjustments consistent with this act and reduction-in-force;

9. Be responsible for the development and maintenance of a uniform occupation code system, grouped by job titles or duties, for all state positions. The responsibility shall include the establishment of rules governing the identification, tracking, and reporting of all state positions as provided in Section 840-2.13 of this title;

10. Be responsible for advising state agencies on personnel policy and administration;

11. Establish standards for continuing training and certification of personnel professionals in the executive branch of state government, excluding institutions within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education. Employees appointed to professional personnel positions shall complete an initial training program within one (1) year after assuming the professional personnel position. Thereafter, they shall complete annual training requirements. Each appointing authority shall ensure that all professional personnel employees are notified of, and scheduled to attend, required training programs and shall make time available for employees to complete the programs. The Director shall be authorized to bill agencies for the training of personnel professionals pursuant to this paragraph to recover reasonable costs associated with the training. Monies received for such training shall be deposited in the Human Capital Management Revolving Fund. Expenditure of such funds collected for the training shall be exempt from any expenditure limit on the Office of Management and Enterprise Services established by law;

12. Not less than once during each two-year period, conduct a study identifying the following, by job family descriptors:

13. Establish a workforce planning function within the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to assist state agencies in analyzing the current workforce, determining future workforce needs, and implementing solutions so that agencies may accomplish their missions; and

14. Establish a quality management function within the Office of Management and Enterprise Services and shall assist state agencies in fully integrating quality management concepts and models into their business practices for the purpose of improving the overall efficiency and effectiveness of state government.