Managing for Results: Efforts to Strengthen the Link Between Resources and Results at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
GAO-03-258
Published: Dec 10, 2002. Publicly Released: Dec 10, 2002.
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Encouraging a clearer and closer link between budgeting and planning is essential to improving federal management and instilling a greater focus on results. Through work at various levels within the organization, this report on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)--and its two companion studies on the Administration for Children and Families (GAO-03-09) and the Veterans Health Administration (GAO-03-10)--documents (1) what managers considered successful efforts at creating linkages between planning and performance information to influence resource choices and (2) the challenges managers face in creating these linkages.
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General management reviewsPerformance measuresPlanning programming budgetingPerformance managementPerformance goalsPerformance measurementBudgetingOperating licenseCost accountingPerformance monitoring