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B-202710 1 (1981-06-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjca0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C. 205 B-202710 June 2, 1981 The Honorable William V. Roth, Jr. Chairman, Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: This is in response to your March 24, 1981, letter in which you requested our comments on Senate bill 489, the Productivity Improvement Act, which has been referred to your Committee. As Senator Bentsen made clear when he introduced the bill on February 17, 1981, it is based largely on our recommendations pre- pared at the Senator's request. We recommended enactment of a similar bill in our report Stronger Federal Effort Needed To Foster Private Sector Productivity (AFMD-81-29, Feb. 18, 1981). The bill reflects our belief that a strong and effective Federal effort is needed to counter the Nation's declining productivity growth. We urge favorable consideration of the bill. Need for an effective productivity effort The current National Productivity Council was established on October 23, 1978, by Executive Order 12089. It is chaired by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. In over 2 years of existence, the National Productivity Council has been relatively inactive and has largely ignored the functions assigned to it. It has seldom met, has not provided guidance to Federal productivity programs, and has not become recognized as the Government's pro- ductivity focal point. We believe that the current national productivity effort has been ineffective because it lacked support from the executive branch. As a result: --Federal programs directly related to productivity improve- ment, now totaling more that $2 billion annually, are funded and operated without any central review, direction, coordi- nation, or evaluation. --No spokesperson for productivity concerns has been recognized. --No open channel exists for airing private sector concerns about productivity-related policies. -V7

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