United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Health, Education, and Human Services Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1997-07-31 monographic deposited born digital 35 p. GA 1.13:HEHS-97-188R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-97-188R P0b002ee180382978 f:he97188r DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-HEHS-97-188R machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-HEHS-97-188R HEHS-97-188R Interagency relations Strategic planning Agency missions Intergovernmental relations Employment or training programs Program evaluation Congressional/executive relations Information resources management Management information systems Public administration Correspondence HEHS

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the draft strategic plan submitted by the Department of Labor, as required by the Government Performance and Results Act, and the draft strategic plans of the Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and Employment Standards Administration (ESA), as submitted by Labor.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) Labor elected to submit a strategic plan overview that addresses some Results Act requirements at the Department level, and it also submitted individual plans for certain agency component units; (2) Labor's overview does not comply with guidance to integrate information from individual strategic plans of its components into a single agencywide strategic overview document; (3) while Labor's overview contains a mission statement for the agency, as required, the statement itself does not appear to be sufficiently descriptive of Labor's basic purpose; (4) Labor's strategic plan overview also does not meet the guidance that it contain an overall statement of departmental goals; (5) Labor's draft overview and supplemental unit plans cover the five areas of major statutory responsibility; (6) Labor's strategic plan overview recognizes the roles of other organizations and the importance of establishing partnerships in carrying out functions; (7) Labor's overview could be improved by recognizing the importance of other participants, namely the other 14 federal agencies involved in one major area of responsibility--job training; (8) the overview does not acknowledge that the nation's federally funded employment training system is a patchwork of multiple programs, many of which are in departments and agencies other than Labor; nor does it set forth strategies pertaining to the development of a cohesive, integrated, and coordinated system; (9) Labor's capacity to provide reliable information for use in its agencywide management is questionable; (10) its overview plan recognizes the importance of additional information to ensure timely and sound evaluations to assess agency progress in meeting goals; (11) its overview does not describe its strategy for ensuring that such information is collected and used to assess progress and performance; (12) Labor's strategic overview plan could be improved by including a discussion of its technology investment control process, a process that can help agencies reduce the risk and maximize the net benefits from their information technology investments; (13) the strategic plans of ETA and OSHA address most of the elements in the Results Act; (14) improvements could be made by including more detailed discussions of evaluation strategies, crosscutting activities, and generating reliable performance information; (15) both plans could benefit by including more results-oriented goals and objectives; and (16) because ESA did not prepare an overall strategic plan, it may not be in the position to address common themes among its four program agencies. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-97-188R/html/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-97-188R.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-97-188R/pdf/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-97-188R.pdf GAO/HEHS-97-188R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-97-188R Correspondence GAO/HEHS-97-188R; The Results Act: Observations on the Draft Strategic Plans of Selected Department of Labor Components; Interagency relations Strategic planning Agency missions Intergovernmental relations Employment or training programs Program evaluation Congressional/executive relations Information resources management Management information systems Public administration Title 5 Section 8101 Title 5 Section 8123 Title 5 Section 8145 5 U.S.C. 8101 5 U.S.C. 8123 5 U.S.C. 8145 Title 29 Section 1501 Title 29 Section 1651 Title 29 Section 201 Title 29 Section 327 Title 29 Section 400 Title 29 Section 431(b) Title 29 Section 435 Title 29 Section 438 Title 29 Section 439 Title 29 Section 464 Title 29 Section 482 Title 29 Section 49 Title 29 Section 651 Title 29 Section 793 29 U.S.C. 1501 29 U.S.C. 1651 29 U.S.C. 201 29 U.S.C. 327 29 U.S.C. 400 29 U.S.C. 431(b) 29 U.S.C. 435 29 U.S.C. 438 29 U.S.C. 439 29 U.S.C. 464 29 U.S.C. 482 29 U.S.C. 49 29 U.S.C. 651 29 U.S.C. 793 Title 30 Section 901 30 U.S.C. 901 Title 33 Section 901 33 U.S.C. 901 Title 40 Section 276a 40 U.S.C. 276a Title 41 Section 351 41 U.S.C. 351 Title 42 Section 1101 Title 42 Section 501 42 U.S.C. 1101 42 U.S.C. 501 Title 49 Section 5323(a)(1)(D) Title 49 Section 5333 49 U.S.C. 5323(a)(1)(D) 49 U.S.C. 5333