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Jun 22, 2009; ... Performance and Trust in Government During the past two decades, government at all levels launched a full-court press on financial accountability, requiring agencies to publish short- and long-term plans--with strategic goals, measurable objectives, a system for assessing ...
Federal performance reporting: what a difference ten years males! Since CPRA implementation, the annual reporting quality has improved substantially, and agencies with better reports increasingly use performance information as a management tool.
Jun 22, 2009; ... In 1999--a decade ago--federal agencies issued their first annual performance reports mandated by the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. That same year, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University launched a research project to evaluate the quality of the reports ...
Quattro punti: four steps to budgeting and performance management--Part 1: start by creating a strategic hierarchy, setting targets, and defining measures.
Jun 22, 2009; ... Government agencies often provide essential services that no one else provides. Therefore, the managers who run those agencies need a tool to manage for results, and citizen consumers of those services need one to gauge their performance. The new Obama administration has shown considerable ...
Coordinating cross-boundary performance at the FAA: integrating cross-government activities has increased airspace capacity so more planes can fly on time.
Jun 22, 2009; ... Problems cross boundaries and so must solutions. The most important challenge for performance networks that aim to deliver better results is designing the structure that coordinates across traditional agency boundaries. Not only must this structure be clearly defined, but it also must ...
Performance-based pay at NGA: involving managers and employees from the outset is critical to workforce acceptance and sustained success.
Jun 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Over the past year or so, a great deal has been written about the problems of the performance-based pay programs at the U.S. Departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS). Employee complaints also forced changes in new pay programs adopted by ...