The Service Economy and Industrial Change: Hearings Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, April 4 and 11, 1984

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الصفحة 198 - The labour of some of the most respectable orders in the society is, like that of menial servants, unproductive of any value, and does not fix or realise itself in any permanent subject or vendible commodity, which endures after that labour is past, and for which an equal quantity of labour could afterwards be procured.
الصفحة 141 - firm" means an individual proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation (including a development corporation), business trust, cooperative, trustees in bankruptcy, or receivers under decree of any court, owning or controlling one or more establishments for the conduct of manufacturing, processing, farming, fishing, or mining operations, and includes all such establishments. (b) The term "establishment...
الصفحة 236 - Over many years, government has become entwined in elaborate management control systems and the accretion of progressively more detailed administrative procedures. This development has not produced superior management. Instead, it has produced managerial overburden. . . . Procedures overwhelm substance. Organizations become discredited, along with their employees. . . . The...
الصفحة 246 - President and reporting to the President, which should become the framework for providing a more powerful and responsive leadership for management reform and improvement for lilt- entire Federal government.
الصفحة 92 - I would like to welcome each of you and thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to appear before the Joint Economic Committee on these important matters.
الصفحة 237 - We performed limited review work at the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics to determine their roles and responsibilities for productivity and performance measurement within the Federal Government.
الصفحة 248 - To fulfill these functions, its role must be clearly defined as a broad range of responsibilities of sufficient importance that the President will give its Director direct and continuing access, "The Office of Federal Management ... is intended to be the one organization to which the President...
الصفحة 236 - What is bitterly ironic is the fact that Federal managers, both political and career, typically regard themselves as captives of a series of cumbersome internal management 'systems
الصفحة 2 - I would like to thank each of you for taking the time out of your busy schedules to join me in testifying before Chairman Anderson's subcommittee.
الصفحة 241 - The budget process, for example, is notorious for making major changes in programs or management responsiblities and then failing utterly to recognize the collateral changes needed in management funds or personnel to implement those changes. Program directors may make important grant or contract decisions only to see months pass while these actions languish in complex procurement or grant-making procedural pipelines. Huge backlogs of claims or appeals stack up in in-boxes because of detailed, complicated...

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