Session on Productivity Standards Set
Top -federal officials wili hold a one-day skull session March 18 with thfeir counterparts in industry to find out how tomeasure productivity and wliat^to do with it once it is measured.</br></br>The meeting, set for Airlie House in nearby Warrenton, is part of a major federal effort to develop productivity standards that will be used in budgeting manpower and resources.</br></br>Federal union Leaders fear that the government Û÷ productivity studies,' being directed by the Office of Management and Budget, General Accounting Office and the Civil Service Commission, will lead to ÛÏspeedupsÛ for employees. But the government says absolute-</br></br>One problem the federal managers plan to discuss is that ; of operating under the annual (fiscal year) budgetary system. Some officials believe that the calendar budget constraints make .many managers afraid to request new equipmentÛÓwhich in the long run twould save moneyÛÓbecause it would temporarily knock their budgets out of whack.</br></br>An idea that will be considered is a flexible, renewal capital investment pool for agencies. These funds, separate from the regular annual appropriations, could be used to buy, for example, an expensive computer system if it were evident , tha$; the * purchase would save money over the long haul.	.