About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

HEHS-98-175R 1 (1998-06-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacmhl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States GN ) General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Health, Education and Human Services Division B-280033 June 4, 1998 The Honorable Bill Goodling Chairman, Committee on Education and the Workforce House of Representatives Subject: Results Act: Observations on Labor's Fiscal Year 1999 Performance Plan Dear Mr. Chairman: As requested, this letter summarizes our observations on the Department of Labor's (Labor) annual performance plan for fiscal year 1999, which was submitted to the Congress in February 1998. As you know, the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (the Results Act) requires federal agencies, beginning with fiscal year 1999, to prepare annual performance plans covering the program activities set out in their budgets. Performance-based management, as envisioned by the Results Act, is a dynamic and complementary process of setting a strategic direction, defining annual goals and measures, and reporting on performance. Under the Results Act, agencies are to prepare multiyear strategic plans that set the general direction for their efforts. The Results Act requires that an agency's strategic plan contain key elements such as a comprehensive agency mission statement, agencywide long- term goals and objectives for all major functions and operations, and a description of the relationship between the long-term goals and objectives and the annual performance goals. Building on the decisions made as part of the strategic planning process, the Results Act requires agencies to develop annual performance plans covering each program activity set forth in the agencies' budgets. With its requirement for annual performance plans, the Results Act establishes (1) the first statutory link between agencies' budget requests and their performance planning efforts and (2) the connections between the long-term strategic goals outlined in the strategic plans and the day-to-day activities of managers and staff. Performance plans are to (1) establish performance goals to define the level of performance to be achieved by a program activity; (2) express such goals in an GAO/HEHS-98-175R Labor's FY 1999 Performance Plan

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most