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FPCD-80-65 1 (1980-09-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbcg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATEs GENERAL ACCOUNTiNG OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FEDERAL PERSONNEL AND COMPENSATION DIVISION SEPTEMBER 30, 1930 B-200576 The Honorable Patricia Schroeder Chairwoman, Subcommittee on Civil Service 113455 Committee on Post Office and Civil Service House of Representatives Dear Chair Schroeder: Subject: supervisor to Nonsupervisor Ratios In the Federal Government and the Private Sector7 (FPCD-80-65) In your letter of September 5, 1979, you raised the issue of excessive overhead in the Federal Government, and particularly, whether Federal employees are supervised too much. You expressed concern about unnecessary supervision having a deleterious effect on productivity and being a luxury we could not afford in these times of austerity. You suggested that we compare supervisor to nonsupervisor ratios between the Federal Government and private industry. We obtained available statistical data from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Bureau of Labor Statis- tics for the Federal and private sector work forces, respec- tively. Although the data is limited in terms of comparabil- ity, we were able to compute a supervisor to nonsupervisor ratio for selected industries. This showed the average span of control of Federal supervisors to be slightly higher than their private sector counterparts. These results are gener- ally consistent with a 1976 study prepared for the Civil Service Commission (now OPM) which included an analysis of spans of control between the Federal Government and the private sector (see enc. I for results). The usefulness of aggregate data such as supervisor to nonsupervisor ratios, however, is very limited. We have strong reservations about the quality of the data collected as well as the comparability of functions between the Federal (961104) / §1 2 ,&; ..

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