Service Monographs of the United States Government, Issue 24

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Page 51 - Session, 1912, 2 vols. hopes that upon the completion of the present series, it will be able to prepare a complete classified statement of the technical and other facilities at the disposal of the government. The present monographs will then furnish the details regarding the organization, equipment, and work of the institutions so listed and classified. OUTLINE OF ORGANIZATION BUREAU OF PENSIONS DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NOVEMBER 16, 1922 Annual Units of Organisation; Salary Classes of Employees...
Page v - THE INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT RESEARCH STUDIES IN ADMINISTRATION. The System of Financial Administration of Great Britain. By WF Willoughby, WW Willoughby, and SM Lindsay.
Page 87 - An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes," approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof (38 U.
Page 31 - ... totally disabled for useful and efficient service in the grade or class of position occupied by the employee, by reason of disease or injury not due to vicious habits, intemperance, or willful misconduct...
Page ix - ... affairs. To executive officials they offer valuable tools of administration. Through them, such officers can, with a minimum of effort, inform themselves regarding the details, not only of their own services, but of others with whose facilities, activities, and methods it is desirable that they should be familiar. Under present conditions services frequently engage in activities in ignorance of the fact that the work projected has already been done, or is in process of execution by other services....
Page v - Personnel Administration of the United States Government. By Lewis Mayers. 624 pp. $5. The Reorganization of the Administrative Branch of the National Government. By WF Willoughby. 314 pp. $3. PRINCIPLES OF ADMINISTRATION. Principles Governing the Retirement of Public Employees. By Lewis Meriam. 508 pp. $3. Principles of Government Purchasing. By Arthur G. Thomas. 290 pp. $3. Principles of Government Accounting and Reporting. By Francis Oakey, CPA 582 pp. $5. Principles of Personnel Administration....
Page vii - This vast organization has never been studied in detail as one piece of administrative mechanism. Never have the foundations been laid for a thorough consideration of the relations of all its parts. No comprehensive effort has been made to list its multifarious activities or to group them in such a way as to present a clear picture of what the government is doing. Never has a complete description been given of the agencies through which these activities are performed. At...
Page 50 - They furnish the essential basis for making plans for determining costs by organization division and subdivision. They afford the data for a consideration of the problem of classifying and standardizing personnel and compensation. Collectively, they make it possible to determine the number and location of organization divisions of any particular kind as, for example, laboratories, libraries blueprint rooms, or any other kind of plant possessed by the national government, to what services they are...
Page ii - American and foreign, to formulate those principles which lie at the basis of all sound administration, and to determine their proper adaptation to the specific needs of our public administration. The accomplishment of specific reforms the Institute recognizes to be the task of those who are charged with the responsibility of legislation and administration; but it seeks to assist, by scientific study and research, in laying a solid foundation of information and experience upon which such reforms...
Page vii - ... are almost as varied as those of the entire business world. The operations of the Government affect the interest of every person living within the jurisdiction of the United States. Its organization embraces stations and centers of work located in every city and in many local subdivisions of the country. Its gross expenditures amount to nearly $1,000,000,000 annually. Including the personnel of the military and naval establishments, more than 400,000 persons are required to do the work imposed...

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