Bureaucratic Behavior
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Federal Personnel: Status of Personnel Research and Demonstration Projects As of April 1987, only two demonstration projects and one research program had been implemented since the enactment of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has overall responsibility for either directly or in... Project End Date: 09/20/87 |
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Equal Employment Opportunity: Hispanics' Advancement Opportunities in SSA Region IX GAO investigated concerns that Hispanics were not receiving fair consideration for promotions in certain Social Security Administration (SSA) offices in Region IX (i.e., California, Arizona, Nevada, and Hawaii). Specifically, GAO researched (1) the n... Project End Date: 07/20/87 |
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Worker Protection: Selected National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Activities In this briefing report, selected activities of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) are reviewed. Information is provided on (1) changes in NIOSH's administrative staff since its headquarters moved to Atlanta, Georgia; (... Project End Date: 02/20/87 |
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Second Report on the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (ProPAC) by the Office of Technology Assessment The Prospective Payment Association Commission (ProPAC) was established as an independent advisory commission by the Social Security Amendments of 1983. The report covers ProPAC's second full year of operation. The main body of the report is organize... Project End Date: 03/20/86 |
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Applicability of OMB Circular A-76 to Personnel Reductions in the Department of Health and Human Services GAO reviewed the Department of Health and Human Services' plan to reduce its staff in the Office of the Secretary. It was alleged that the services being performed by the HHS employees whose positions were being abolished might later be procured from... Project End Date: 02/20/85 |
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Better Federal Program Administration Can Contribute to Improving State FosterCare Programs The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 provides for annual federal incentive payments to states if they improve foster care programs to (1) avoid unnecessary removal of children from their homes; (2) prevent extended stays in foster ca... Project End Date: 10/20/84 |
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Legislative and Administrative Changes Needed to Improve Regulation of Drug Industry For this study GAO reviewed the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) compliance activities to determine whether FDA is taking appropriate and timely regulatory actions against firms violating the law and FDA regulations. In FY 1981 the number of re... Project End Date: 04/20/83 |
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Natural Helping Networks and Service Delivery: An Appraisal of 30 Programs This project identified and assessed program strategies for human services agencies by studying agencies that had developed innovative ways to form relationships between professional staff and informal networks of care providers, which include family... Project End Date: 12/20/80 |
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Managing the Human Services "System": What Have We Learned from Services Integration? Services Integration-Targets of Opportunity (SITO) Projects, three-year demonstration projects begun in the 1970s, involved establishing state or local interagency linkages to improve the accessibility, comprehensiveness, and responsiveness of the hu... Project End Date: 08/20/77 |
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Model of the Disability Insurance Acceptance Decision This report develops a model that is designed to identify and test the factors affecting the decision to award or deny benefits to an applicant for Disability Insurance (DI). The study was prompted by concerns about the rapid increase in the cost of... Project End Date: 06/20/77 |
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Evaluation of Deficiencies in Program Study Designs This study addressed the problem of reducing the time needed to obtain Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for surveys to collect data relating to Health Resources Administration (HRA) programs. Findings discuss problems relating to 470 de... Project End Date: 07/20/75 |
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Diffusion of Medical Technology: Policy and Research Planning Perspectives An overview of a 1972 conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the development of policy regarding research on the diffusion of medical technology is presented. Participants included government officials, biomedical experts,... Project End Date: 01/20/75 |
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Health Policy Analysis: Assessing Institutional Capabilities This study developed and tested a systematic approach for assessing the capabilities of organizations that conduct health policy analysis. Ten case studies documenting this approach are presented in Appendix A. The study also explored broader issues... Project End Date: 01/20/75 |
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Nationwide Survey of State Health Regulations (Two Phases) This study analyzed health services, capital expenditures and services, and health insurance. The objectives were to (1) compile comprehensive data via a nationwide survey on how the states regulate reimbursement for health services, capital expendit... Project End Date: 09/20/74 |
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Evaluations of the War on Poverty: Status and Prospects of the Office of Economic Opportunity This report examines the quality and rigor of evaluation practices at the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and the extent to which evaluation has affected program design and operation. The OEO was created in the context of the War on Poverty to h... Project End Date: 03/20/69 |
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