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State Department: Overseas Staffing Process Not Linked to Policy Priorities

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 20, 1994
Report No. NSIAD-94-228
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Summary:

In staffing its overseas posts, the State Department does not use an objective, quantifiable methodology that ranks posts on the basis of U.S. foreign policy priorities. Several internal State Department studies since 1988 have expressed concern about this situation. Senior State officials have acknowledged that the current personnel resources planning and allocation processes fail to adequately link personnel resources with policy priorities. This report discusses State's efforts to improve this process and the process State used to identify the 17 posts to close in 1993 and 1994.

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