United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office General Government Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1995-09-18 monographic deposited born digital 56 p. GA 1.13:GGD-95-221BR https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GGD-95-221BR P0b002ee1803a1e45 f:gg95221b DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-GGD-95-221BR machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GGD-95-221BR GGD-95-221BR Personnel management Federal personnel legislation Reductions in force Monitoring Federal agency reorganization Federal employees Personnel evaluation systems Work measurement standards Personnel recruiting Total quality management National Performance Review General Schedule System TQM Briefing Report GGD GAO provided information on federal human resource officials' views on selected National Performance Review (NPR) human resource recommendations, focusing on: (1) whether human resource officials favor the NPR recommendations; (2) whether the officials believe they have the capacity to assume the additional responsibility envisioned by NPR; and (3) what oversight is being envisioned by the Office of Personnel and Management (OPM) and agencies to ensure accountability for merit system principles.<p/>GAO found that: (1) although human resource officials generally favor the flexibility that decentralization would give them and their agency managers, they believe that NPR recommendations would add to their overall workload; (2) NPR has recommended that OPM develop a new oversight process to ensure compliance with the merit principles within a deregulated and flexible environment; (3) most human resource officials believe that their agencies could adequately oversee their own human resource operations, but some federal agencies do not have a performance measurement system to judge the outcomes of their operations; and (4) OPM is working with agency human resource offices to develop a set of performance indicators to assist them in monitoring their activities. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GGD-95-221BR/html/GAOREPORTS-GGD-95-221BR.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GGD-95-221BR/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GGD-95-221BR.pdf GAO/GGD-95-221BR https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GGD-95-221BR Briefing Report GAO/GGD-95-221BR; Federal Personnel Management: Views on Selected NPR Human Resource Recommendations; Personnel management Federal personnel legislation Reductions in force Monitoring Federal agency reorganization Federal employees Personnel evaluation systems Work measurement standards Personnel recruiting Total quality management National Performance Review General Schedule System TQM Public Law 103-62