The Presidential Management Agenda

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The President's Management Agenda is a method of assessing the management of federal agencies. The paper explains that the PMA for current President Bush uses a simple grading system " red, yellow and green " to report each Federal agency's status and progress in achieving the criterion of success, specific good-government goals articulated for each of the initiatives. Green indicates the agency meets all the standards for success. Yellow indicates the agency has achieved some, but not all, of the criteria. However, a red means the agency has any one of serious flaws. This paper examines just how effective the PMA is on federal agency performance.

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"The problem lies in the fact that new programs are frequently created with hardly any systematic review or appraisal of the currently existing programs to deal with the same superficial problem. Over time, there have been many programs with coinciding missions and challenging agendas that just lead to wasting money and puzzling citizens.
Therefore, the government needs to reform its way of functioning as how it runs its business and how it provides to the people it serves; it should also rethink its purpose as in how it characterizes what business is and what services it should provide."

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