The Results Act
The Results Act

Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G

Publisher: BiblioGov

Published: 2013-06

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781289014612

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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.

Managing for Results
Managing for Results

Author: J. Christopher Mihm

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2000-08

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 0756700795

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The Government Performance & Results Act of 1993 seeks to shift the focus of government perform. & accountability away from a preoccupation with activities to a focus on the results or outcome of those activities. This report provides summary information based on a review & evaluation of the FY 2000 performance plans of the 24 agencies covered by the Chief Financial Officers Act. It summarizes the extent to which the agencies' plans include three key elements of informative perform. plans: (1) clear pictures of intended performance, (2) discussions of strategies & resources, & (3) credible perform. information. Discusses the major strengths & key weaknesses of FY 2000 performance plans.

Results Act
Results Act

Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G

Publisher: BiblioGov

Published: 2013-06

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781289057039

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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) annual performance plan for fiscal year (FY) 1999, focusing on whether OPM's plan complies with the statutory requirements and congressional intent as contained in the Government Performance and Results Act and related guidance. GAO noted that: (1) OPM's annual performance plan addresses the six program components required by the Results Act; (2) the plan has several performance goals and measures listed under each of its five strategic goals as identified in OPM's September 1997 strategic plan; (3) some of these goals and measures are objective and quantifiable, providing a way to judge whether the goal has been achieved; (4) the plan also lays out, very well, a clear linkage between the FY 1999 performance goals and OPM's mission and strategic goals and also between its goals and its specific program activities and related funding as presented in its 1999 budget; (5) the principal area in which the performance plan could be improved to better meet the purposes of the Results Act is in the statement of its goals; (6) OPM's annual performance plan goals, like those in its strategic plan, tend to be process or activity goals; (7) the Results Act, in contrast, envisions a much greater emphasis on outcome goals that state what overall end result the agency will achieve, such as increasing the effectiveness of the federal civilian workforce; (8) Congress sought this emphasis to help ensure that processes and activities that agencies undertake actually add up to a meaningful result that is commensurate with the resources expended; and (9) OPM's annual performance plan could also be improved by including more discussion on how its resources will be used to achieve its goals and adding a discussion of known data limitations that may affect the validity of various performance measures that OPM plans to use.

The Results Act
The Results Act

Author: Susan Westin

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1999-04

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 0788177850

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Congress, seeking to reduce the cost and improve the performance of the federal government, enacted the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (the Results Act) to improve federal program effectiveness and public accountability. This guide is intended to facilitate assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of agencies' annual performance plans in meeting both the requirements of the Results Act and congressional expectations that the plans inform Congress and the public about agencies' performance goals, including how they will accomplish them and how they will measure their results. This guide is organized around 3 core questions.