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type: "LegalText"
title: "5 U.S.C. § 4121"
description: "Specific training programs"
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title_number: 5
title_name: "GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES"
chapter_number: "41"
chapter_name: "TRAINING"
section: "4121"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 4121"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 5 U.S.C. § 4121 - Specific training programs

## Text

In consultation with the Office of Personnel Management, the head of each agency shall establish—

(1) a comprehensive management succession program to provide training to employees to develop managers for the agency; and

(2) a program to provide training to managers on actions, options, and strategies a manager may use in—

(A) relating to employees with unacceptable performance;

(B) mentoring employees and improving employee performance and productivity; and

(C) conducting employee performance appraisals.

(Added Pub. L. 108–411, title II, § 201(b)(1), Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2311.)