To address
DOL’s wide array of management problems, the Secretary has created
a Management Review Board.
Initiative
Status
Progress
Human
Capital — DOL has overhauled its employee appraisal
system; screened 250 candidates through its MBA recruitment initiative;
and selected 24 of the 196 applicants to its SES candidate development
program.
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Competitive
Sourcing — The Department has made progress, exceeding
its 2002 competitive sourcing goal by directly converting 152
positions. However, it has not yet initiated a competition or
completed its 2003 competition plans. Green status will require
competition or direct conversion of at least 1,400 FTE from DOL’s
2000 inventory.
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Financial
Performance — DOL’s financial statements consistently
receive clean audits, and its work to reduce Unemployment Insurance
benefit overpayments by states could save hundreds of millions
of dollars annually. Green status will require an integrated financial
and performance management system to inform managers’ real-time
decisions about programs.
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Expanding
E-Government —
DOL led the creation of the GovBenefits website, which informs
visitors about federal programs for which they may qualify; was
the first agency with a central fund to promote cost-effective
IT investments; and had the highest grade of any Cabinet agency
on a recently issued congressional Computer Security Report Card.
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Budget/Performance
Integration — DOL has proposed a format that would show
the Department’s budget requests in terms of its strategic
goals and performance. The 2004 budget attempts to identify all
funding sources within the Department for each activity, and calculate
the costs of achieving major program goals.
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Faith-Based
and Community Initiative — DOL is providing technical
assistance, and has begun pilot programs to determine the best practices
for incorporating FBCOs into the local workforce development system.
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indicate change in status since baseline evaluation on September 30,
2001.
Program
Assessments
Nine DOL
programs were reviewed, including three regulatory, two grant programs,
and four administered directly by the federal government. PART scores
ranged broadly. A number of PARTs called for efficiency measures to relate
outcomes to resources, while others reflected the need for more rigorous
performance indicators or the absence of appropriate, reliable evaluation
data.