Program Budgeting and Executive Commitment.

John Breen Benton, A. J. Tenzer

Expert InsightsPublished 1969

A review of program-budgeting methods for bureaucracies, submitted for the use of the executive who wishes to change his agency's decisionmaking process through employment of a PPB system. A program-budgeting system is a framework, within which agency-wide systems analysis is performed. The program budget performs the vital functions of (1) forcing the organization to clearly define its objectives and the costs of obtaining them; (2) integrating the results of systems analysis, now expressed as programs, into the conventional budgets of the organization; and (3) serving as a means of communication with individuals in and out of the organization as to its formal objectives and supporting activities. Important to effective PPBS are an initially firm commitment on the part of the executive initiating the process, and a delegation of authority and freedom to the program-budgeting staff to pursue its objectives within the organizational subsystems. A sample program-budget format is appended. 37 pp.

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  • Year: 1969
  • Pages: 37
  • Document Number: P-4143

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