Improvements Needed in Defense's Efforts To Use Work Measurement

Gao ID: LCD-76-401 August 31, 1976

The Department of Defense (DOD) is one of the largest single users of work measurement standards in either the public or the private sector. Because of the importance of work measurement efforts in improving productivity, GAO conducted a review to highlight deficiencies found in the application of such standards under the Defense Integrated Management Engineering System.

In 1975, DOD eliminated the requirement for the services to submit yearly work measurement progress reports. Consequently, neither GAO nor DOD could effectively evaluate the progress the services made in their work measurement efforts. It was clear, however, that the full potential of DOD work measurement efforts was not being realized. It was the opinion of GAO that savings realized as a result of the work measurement efforts could have been substantially greater if the potential had been fully developed under a strong leadership within the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

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