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IV. Departmental Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

John D. Millett
John D. Millett
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Columbia University
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The Hoover Commission: A Symposium
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American Political Science Review , Volume 43 , Issue 5 , October 1949 , pp. 959 - 966
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1949

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1 In this discussion, I shall refer throughout to the reports of the Hoover Commission itself and not to any of the task force reports published as appendices to the Commission reports. Actually, only a part of these task force reports have been published. The present writer was co-author of Appendix E to the Commission reports, entitled “Departmental Management.”

2 See President's Committee on Administrative Management, Report with Special Studies, pp. 31 and 33Google Scholar.

3 Ibid., p. 39.

4 To be sure, the report was accompanied by a special study by Arthur W. Macmahon entitled “Departmental Management” (ibid., p. 247) which has had a continuing influence upon organizational thinking and practice in the federal government.

5 Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, General Management of the Executive Branch, p. 31Google Scholar.

6 Ibid., pp. 34–35.

7 Ibid., pp. 35–45.

8 The reports which deal with operating structure and activities are: Foreign Affairs, National Security Organization; Department of Agriculture; Post Office; Medical Activities; Department of the Interior; Social Security; Education; Indian Affairs; Department of Commerce; Treasury Department; Department of Labor; Veterans Affairs; Overseas Administration; Federal-State Relations; Federal Research; and Business Enterprises.

9 Concluding Report, p. 41.

10 Ibid., pp. 43–44.

11 General Management of ike Executive Branch, p. 1.

12 Ibid., p. 5.

13 Ibid., p. 38.

14 Ibid., p. 1.

15 Ibid., p. 7.

16 Ibid., p. 32.

17 Ibid., p. 41.

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