Productivity Enhancement Efforts in the Federal Government: A Report of Survey Results, Program Report Evaluation, and Implications for Research

摘要

The Civil Service Commission assumed responsibility for providing leadership, policy guidance, and technical assistance to agencies on the personnel management aspects of productivity. This includes manpower planning and utilization, training, executive development, labor relations, pay and incentives, job design, personnel management research, and the integration of these functions with overall productivity improvement programs. To obtain knowledge relevant to the Commission's responsibilities in this area, the Personnel Research and Development Center (PRDC) has mounted a major effort to conduct research in the area of productivity improvement methods. The focus of this research is on evaluating the effectiveness of various applications of principles of the behavioral sciences to human resource enhancement efforts in the several different areas of Federal Government work.