Wisconsin's Progress with Productivity Improvements

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1. U.S. Bureau of the Budget, Measuring of Federal Government Organizations (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964). 2. Thomas D. Morris, William H. Corbett, and Brian L. Usilaner, Productivity Measures in the Federal Government, Public Administration Review, Vol. 32, No. 6 (1972). 3. U.S. General Accounting Office, Office of Management and Budget, Civil Service Commission, Phase III-Summary Report: Measuring and Enhancing in the Federal Government (Washington, D.C.: U.S. General Accounting Office, June 1973). 4. The General Services Administration became one of the central sponsoring agencies of the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program in June 1973 when the Office of Federal Management Policy was established in GSA to carry out certain financial and other management functions transferred from the Office of Management and Budget. This relationship and the GSA central role in productivity were discontinued at the end of 1975 when the Office of Federal Management Policy was eliminated and most of the functions transferred back to OMB. 5. Joint Financial Management Improvement Program, Annual Report to the President and the Congress: Programs in the Federal Government (Washington, D.C.: JFMIP, July 1976); Volume I: Trends and Current Efforts; Volume II: Case Studies; Supplement to Volume I: The Measurement Data Base. 6. Joint Financial Management Improvement Program, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 1. 7. Ibid., p. 14. 8. Joint Financial Management Improvement Program, op. cit., Vol. I, Chap. 7, and Vol. II, Chap. 12 and 13. 9. National Commission on Improvement (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, October 1975). 10. National Center for and Quality of Working Life, Annual Report to the President and Congress, 1976 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office), pp. 49-65. 11. Ibid., pp. 67-90. 12. Joint Financial Management Improvement Program, Report on Federal Productivity-Volume II: Case Studies (Washington, D.C.: JFMIP, June 1974) Chap. 9. 13. Ibid., Chap. 7. 14. Frank B. Elliot, A Comprehensive Financial Management Program for the Farmers Home Administration, The Bureaucrat, Vol. 5, No. 4, January 1977. 15. Joint Financial Management Improvement Program, Implementing a Program: Points to Consider (Washington, D.C.: JFMIP, March 1977).