GAO found that: (1) 42 agencies reported that they had not appointed any noncareer employees to career positions; (2) 18 agencies reported 64 conversions, including 31 by the Department of Health and Human Services; and (3) 53 of the 64 conversions were competitive appointments, while 11 were noncompetitive.

GAO found that: (1) USPS policy did not indicate which infractions were considered minor, how many discussions to hold before taking disciplinary action, or whether discussions should precede disciplinary action for subsequent but different infractions; (2) about 68 percent of the supervisors required discussions for each new infraction regardless of past discussions for different infractions; (3

GAO found that: (1) the Commission complied with each of the FY 1988 line-item appropriations and other limitations; (2) the Commission failed to include salaries and benefits for all temporary employees in its calculations; and (3) the Chairman had used 75 percent of his billable days as of April 9, 1988.

GAO found that OPM: (1) abolished the Civil Service Commission's training requirements in an effort to delegate more authority to the agencies regarding the content and timing of executive training; (2) established criteria for training Senior Executive Service (SES) candidates and incumbents; and (3) requested that agencies provide data on employee training activities. GAO also found that, in fi

GAO found that: (1) processing times for initial claims and appeals generally improved; (2) processing times for disability claims increased because of the time required to implement 1984 legislative changes for mental impairment cases; (3) backlogs for major work loads were down substantially from 1984 levels, the year before the reduction initiative; (4) SSA clients and employees generally cons

GAO presented a transcript of a videotape interview of Elmer B. Staats, the Comptroller General of the United States from 1966 to 1981, as part of its program to record key government officials' observations and impressions and ensure that the bases for policy decisions and other important events are systematically recorded for posterity.

GAO obtained information on internal equal employment opportunity (EEO) office activities at the agencies including components dealing with complaint processing, policy development, legal activities, and affirmative action plan development and implementation. However, GAO found that: (1) a number of problems and inconsistencies exist in the way EEO offices collected and presented data in agency r

This bibliography contains selected articles from professional periodicals concerning all aspects of the dual-career couples phenomenon. The articles address the impact of dual-career couples on the personnel policies of corporations, the problems of relocation, the geographic separation lifestyle, domestic adjustment, child rearing, finances, anxieties, and other subjects.