Summary: As the role of Government grows and changes, and as the decisions of public officials at all levels of Government have a more direct effect both on daily affairs and on prospects for the future, the quality of public service has increasingly become a major public concern. Attracting industrious and capable people to the Government, and holding them there, is at the core of an efficient and effective civil service. The Administration's broad civil service reforms are intended to maximize the productivity of Federal workers at all levels of Government, but thus far have focused on the top levels. Government managers of the future will have to be creative, be able to anticipate the future, and see that policy machinery stays ahead of problems. They must have a keen comprehension of the values and limitations inherent in the use of data, the art of timing its collection, the process of designing the structure of investigation, and the judgment that interprets the significance of the information and applies it to policymaking. They will have to be at home with theoretical statistics, the rarer altitudes of mathematical science, and the relationship of science and technology to Government and the rest of society.
