Managing for Results: Agencies Need to Fully Identify and Report Major Management Challenges and Actions to Resolve them in their Agency Performance Plans

Abstract

GPRAMA requires agencies to identify and report on how they will resolve major management challengesprograms or management functions with greater vulnerability to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement where a failure to perform well could seriously affect the ability of an agency or the government to achieve its mission or goals. Agencies are to describe challenges and provide performance information for resolving those challenges in agency performance plans. GPRAMA includes a provision for GAO to periodically review its implementation. The objectives of this report were to (1) assess to what extent agency performance plans and reports address major management challenges that include, for example, GAO High-Risk issues and challenges identified by the agency Inspector General; and (2) identify illustrative examples that selected agencies reported taking to address their major management challenges. GAO examined agency performance plans and reports using GPRAMA and interviewed OMB and agency staff.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1169142

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  • J. Christopher Mihm

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  • United States Government Accountability Office

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