U.S. General Accounting Office: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, July 18, 2000U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001 - 94 pàgines |
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Pàgina 36 - Medicaid—is to envision a very different role for the federal government. Even assuming, for example, that the Congress and the President adhere to the...
Pàgina 40 - In response to an increasingly competitive job market, federal agencies will need the tools and flexibility to attract, hire, retain, and reward top-flight talent. More and more, the work that federal agencies do requires a knowledge-based workforce that is sophisticated in new technologies, flexible, and open to continuous learning. Agencies' employment structures and working arrangements will also be changing, and the workplace will need to accommodate greater flexibility and uncertainty. The implications...
Pàgina 8 - GAO exists to support the Congress in meeting its Constitutional responsibilities and to help improve the performance and ensure the accountability of the federal government for the American people.
Pàgina 5 - GAO's evaluators, auditors, lawyers, economists, public policy analysts, information technology specialists, and other multi-disciplinary professionals seek to enhance the economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and credibility of the federal government, both in fact and in the eyes of the American public.
Pàgina 26 - ... establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty...
Pàgina 40 - We intend to do more work on the implications of downsizing, but our view today is that the widespread lack of attention to strategic human capital management may be creating a fundamental weakness in federal management, possibly even putting at risk the federal government's ability to efficiently, economically, and effectively deliver products and services to the taxpayers in the future. These shortcomings In the federal government's human capital management systems could well earn them GAG'S high-risk...
Pàgina 29 - The 2000 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal...
Pàgina 36 - Medicaid programs is to envision a very different role for the federal government. Assuming, for example, that the Congress and the President adhere to the often-stated goal of saving the Social Security surpluses, our long-term model shows a world by 2030 in which Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid increasingly absorb available revenues within the federal budget. Under this scenario, these programs would absorb more than three-quarters of total federal revenue.
Pàgina 39 - American citizens are increasingly demanding improved government services and better stewardship of public resources. Responding to these demands will require government decisionmakers to adopt new ways of thinking, consider different ways of achieving goals, and use new types of information to guide decisions. In 1999 we issued a series of reports — our Performance and Accountability Series — that describes management...
Pàgina 43 - ... effectiveness. We will continue to strive to do so. Human Capital We need to invest more heavily in our people — our greatest asset. Targeted investments need to be made in our training, performance rewards and incentives, and performance appraisal systems. In addition to examining our human capital profile, we have begun efforts to strengthen and redesign our performance appraisal system to better assess employee strengths and weaknesses, identify training needs, and reward and recognize exceptional...