Studies on Administrative Management in the Government of the United States, Tema 4

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Página 34 - To coordinate interagency problems of organization and activity of Federal agencies ; (c) To coordinate and make more efficient and productive the work of the field agencies of the Federal Government ; (d) To cooperate with any Federal agency in performing such activities as the President may...
Página 31 - Executive are for the purpose of enabling the President, in matters of routine business, to so coordinate the activities of the different departments and establishments as will insure the most economical and efficient expenditure of monies appropriated by Congress. They provide the machinery through which, with the minimum of obstruction and delay the Executive may impose a unified plan of governmental routine business.
Página 40 - To request the assistance and advice of any officer, agent, or employee of any executive department or of any independent office of tb...
Página 22 - Company, 1922), p. 138. makes large demands on time and thought. But a Cabinet officer is more than a working executive. He is a counselor in preparing and developing national policies, many of which cover matters far outside of his executive reach. One of these two great (and sometimes conflicting) duties must be done; the other cannot be left undone. The friend may not have been wholly wrong who said that I looked at my duties too much as a business matter — too little as the creative service...
Página 31 - ... the interests of the Government. Third, the organization of corps area coordinators. For the purpose of making a practical extension of the principles involved in the Federal Purchasing Board and Federal Liquidation Board over the entire country a system of corps area coordinators has been created. The points of location of Government stocks are so scattered, and the diffusion of the points of purchasing activities so great, that central boards at Washington would be unable to cope with the situation...
Página 34 - To coordinate and make more efficient and productive the work of the field agencies of the Federal Government ; (d) To cooperate with any Federal agency in performing such activities as the President may direct ; and (e) To serve in an advisory capacity to the President and the Executive Director of the National Emergency Council.
Página 6 - I had thought perhaps as a member of the Cabinet", wrote one, "I would have an opportunity, say once a month or so, to think upon questions of statecraft and policy, but I find myself locked up in a cocoon — no wings and no chance for wings to grow.
Página 49 - Its peculiar value lies in freedom of operation, flexibility, business efficiency, and opportunity for experimentation.

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