Performance Measurement: Toward More Effective Government : Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, on S. 20, to Provide for the Establishment, Testing, and Evaluation of Strategic Planning and Performance Measurement in the Federal Government, and for Other Purposes, May 5, 1992U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993 - 182 pages |
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... meet its performance goals today . I want to express my great appreciation to you , Mr. Chairman , for holding this second hearing to consider the legislation to re- quire performance measurement . In the year since our first hearing ...
... meet its performance goals today . I want to express my great appreciation to you , Mr. Chairman , for holding this second hearing to consider the legislation to re- quire performance measurement . In the year since our first hearing ...
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... meet all those objectives ? Mr. BOWSHER . Well , I think Congress should give guidance to the agencies , but then I think you have to look to the agency head to pull together his or her team to develop this . I think a good thing is to ...
... meet all those objectives ? Mr. BOWSHER . Well , I think Congress should give guidance to the agencies , but then I think you have to look to the agency head to pull together his or her team to develop this . I think a good thing is to ...
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... meet their objec- tives . That is how they have enforced accountability toward the end . In addition , there is an annual report published at the end of each year on the progress that that chief executive is making in terms of the ...
... meet their objec- tives . That is how they have enforced accountability toward the end . In addition , there is an annual report published at the end of each year on the progress that that chief executive is making in terms of the ...
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... meet with us , have lunch with us , get to know the GAO - and I'm on my 4th and 5th and 6th person in 11 years in some of these departments and agen- cies . And it is discouraging , it is very discouraging . In fact , one Cabinet ...
... meet with us , have lunch with us , get to know the GAO - and I'm on my 4th and 5th and 6th person in 11 years in some of these departments and agen- cies . And it is discouraging , it is very discouraging . In fact , one Cabinet ...
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... meet the target , headlines and editorials were generated in newspapers , including the Washington Post and the New York Times , and that's exactly what ought to happen . When we as a society are not achieving what ought to be ...
... meet the target , headlines and editorials were generated in newspapers , including the Washington Post and the New York Times , and that's exactly what ought to happen . When we as a society are not achieving what ought to be ...
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