A Healthy NIH Intramural Program Structural Change or Administrative Remedies? Report of a Study (1988) / Chapter Skim
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CHAPTER 4 SOLVING ADMINISTRATIVE PROBLEMS
CHAPTER 4 SOLVING ADMINISTRATIVE PROBLEMS
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User fees (e.g., highway tolls, drilling rights) , on the other hand, represent a mechanism whereby private markets are used to put constraints on activities being carried out in the public sector.
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The committee found some forms of privatization clearly inappropriate for the intramural program because, given the nature of its product, it cannot generate adequate revenues through user fees or the sale of services to individuals. Nor does NIH have physical assets that anyone in the for-profit sector would be likely to buy and maintain as a basic biomedical research program.
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. The committee considered two ways independent agency status might be conferred upon NIH: separating the whole of the agency from DHHS; or separating only the intramural program, leaving the other NIH activities in DHHS.
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Finally, aside from the benefits lost from having the intramural and extramural programs exist side by side, a considerable effort would be required to and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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The Comptroller General in 1969 urged that a proposal for a GRI again be considered, but and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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To accomplish this, personnel reforms should be characterized by the following: ○ a means of exceeding the federal salary cap when necessary to compete for some types of personnel; to reward those who undertake added administrative responsibilities, such as the scientific directors; and to avoid excessive wage compression, i.e., bunching of salaries around the federal civil service cap of $72,500 for GS-level employees; ○ a portable system of retirement, so that university and industry personnel would not be disadvantaged by spending part of their career at NIH;
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Three types of pay increases are possible. First, all employees who and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted.
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This authority permits a wide latitude of activities in which the foundation and USUHS may share staff, space, equipment, and other resources. The and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted.
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service. The Secretary of DHHS would appoint its members and and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted.
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What the committee is seeking is a mix of appropriate tools for NIH management to operate in highly competitive labor markets at all levels of personnel. These tools include a personnel demonstration project, a foundation, and relief from personnel ceilings.
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Creating endowed chairs outside the federal civil service system would enable NIH to provide competitive salaries substantially higher than the federal civil service ceiling, and to provide other resources such as
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To accomplish this, the committee recommends that Congress charter a foundation to permit the private and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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The committee recommends that the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services delegate to the Director of NIH the authority to make decisions and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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The review report should and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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This proposed program to recruit the brightest young investigators and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution.
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1962. Report to the President on Government Contracting for Research and and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted.
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