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The Public Manager archives from September 1997
Overview: views from the starting line. (implementation of the Government Performance and Results Act)(Forum: Implementing the Results Act)
September 22, 1997... What the authors say - and don't say - may provide as good a look into the future as we are likely to get at this point. Overall, there seems to be a note of realism in the air, and realism isn't a bad place to start the first year of...
Managing for results. (Government Performance and Results Act)(Forum: Implementing the Results Act)
September 22, 1997... We will know we have been successful in this undertaking when the statute goes away, a performance measure I hope we meet soon.
We are about to conclude four years of preparation and to begin full implementation of the Government Performance...
Next steps to implementing the Results Act. (Government Performance and Results Act)(Forum: Implementing the Results Act)
September 22, 1997... Next steps include: establishing clear linkages within agencies; coordinating program efforts that cut across more than one agency; and continuing to deepen congressional involvement.
Over the last decade or so, citizens in the market -...
Agencies have much work to do - but so do OMB and Congress. (Office of Management and Budget)(Forum: Implementing the Results Act)
September 22, 1997... Without progress in balancing the budget and improving results for the taxpayer, the public's cynicism will only continue to increase.
"Will Congress be interested?" A year ago, that was the question every one - including me - was asking as...
Linking resources to planning and performance measurement.(Forum: Implementing the Results Act)
September 22, 1997... The linkage implied in GPRA goes much farther than tying resources to specific levels of program activity. GPRA offers federal managers a significant step forward.
As the effective date of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA)...
Using performance management to energize the Results Act. (Government Performance and Results Act)(Forum: Implementing the Results Act)
September 22, 1997... Employees achieve results; their effort must be linked to strategic goals and performance objectives. It can be done through use of performance management.
The Government Performance and Results Act (Results Act) presents agencies once again...
Can technology really help your Results Act implementation? (Government Performance and Results Act)(Forum: Implementing the Results Act)
September 22, 1997... The Results Act and the Clinger-Cohen Act are synergistic; they need to be considered together for maximum impact.
The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) is aimed at improving the outcomes and effectiveness of government agencies...
Change: a view from the cutting edge. (insights from the Alliance for Redesigning Government)(Forum: Implementing the Results Act)
September 22, 1997... The Alliance for Redesigning Government shares insights from five years of listening to innovators in the public sector.
The Alliance for Redesigning Government was created five years ago by the National Academy of Public Administration to be...
From performance measurement to performance management.(Forum: Implementing the Results Act)
September 22, 1997... The CFO Council hopes that all parties work cooperatively to embrace performance management rather than perfunctory compliance with GPRA.
The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) was enacted in 1993 to improve stewardship in the...
NAPA panel reviews implementation of GPRA to date. (National Academy of Public Administration; Government Performance and Results Act)(Forum: Implementing the Results Act)
September 22, 1997... While not an answer to all of government's problems, the Results Act offers the potential for a significant shift in how we manage federal programs to make them more effective.
This year has seen a major increase in the engagement of the key...
Performance-based management.(Forum: Implementing the Results Act)
September 22, 1997... The ultimate question to be answered will relate the costs of performance measurement to the effectiveness of performance measurement.
Performance measurement is of growing importance as we move toward governmentwide implementation of the...
We need a new concept of accountability.(Forum: Implementing the Results Act)
September 22, 1997... We need, at all levels of government, to understand and accept the inherent notion that most meaningful outcomes are shared outcomes.
Yes, public managers should be held accountable for the honest use of funds they receive. Yes, public...
Reinvention and ethics: public service at the crossroads?
September 22, 1997... In the environment of reinvention there is a potential for abuse, as well as the appearance of abuse. What residual systems are left in place to protect the integrity of government?
As public servants you must not only do the right thing, but...
One department's approach to implementing the Government Performance and Results Act. (US Treasury Department)
September 22, 1997... The Treasury Department has a 12-point approach to implementing GPRA which focuses on "hard-wiring" the planning and budget processes together in making resource allocation decisions.
As more and more federal managers are coming to realize,...
The balanced scorecard approach to strategy management.
September 22, 1997... Federal managers are increasingly interested in using measures of organizational performance to manage their agencies and programs, most likely in response to the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). However, GPRA may not...
Negotiating the future: helping to keep the year 2000 problem in check. (year 2000 compliant computers)
September 22, 1997... A significant challenge faced by the US government in dealing with the multi-billion dollar so-called "Year 2000 problem" is to keep it from getting worse. Congressional pressures have already started to mount (e.g., Katzen, 1996 in...
Lessons learned: providing government Internet services with public trust.
September 22, 1997... What appear to be logical disclosure and privacy policies and sound system security practices alone may not adequately satisfy public concerns about using the Internet to transact services which include confidential information. Such...
Managing diversity's impact in Metropolitan Dade County. (Dade County, Florida)
September 22, 1997... Of the many challenges facing public administrators today -- shrinking resources, loss of faith in our governmental institutions, downsizing, and rightsizing, to mention but a few -- none is more interesting than the changing composition of...
The Washington Monument Syndrome: blind justice. (Pres Bill Clinton's rumored affair with an Arkansas employee)
September 22, 1997... Are you prepared for the spectacle of the president of the United States being tried in open court for a civil offense? Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that no one is above the law, the president cannot hide behind the oval office (or...
