Managing for Results: Regulatory Agencies Identified Significant Barriers to Focusing on Results

GAO reviewed five regulatory agencies' efforts to implement the provisions of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993, focusing on the: (1) five agencies' strategic goals and related program performance measures as well as selected employee performance standards as of January 1, 1997; (2) extent to which agency officials and GAO believed that these goals, program performance measures, and employee performance standards focused on results; and (3) aids and barriers that officials in the agencies said they faced in attempting to focus on results.