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Program budgeting and the performance movement : the elusive quest for efficiency in government / William F. West.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- West, William F.
- Series:
- Public management and change.
- Public management and change series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Managerial accounting--United States.
- Managerial accounting.
- Program budgeting--United States.
- Program budgeting.
- Total quality management in government--United States.
- Total quality management in government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (395 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- William F. West examines the checkered history of program budgeting (PPB) as a means of rationalizing the allocation of resources within and across government agencies. The book includes an in-depth study of the adoption and effects of PPB at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. West also discusses how the disappointing results of PPB speak more broadly to the goals and assumptions of formal requirements for planning and performance assessment.
- Contents:
- A brief history of PPB
- The survival and evolution of program budgeting at DOD
- NOAA's adoption of PPB and matrix management
- Evaluating NOAA's management initiatives
- PPB and the holy grail of performance management
- Administrative doctrine and administrative reality.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781589017917
- 1589017919
- OCLC:
- 763157007
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