United States Bureau of Efficiency

Not to be confused with Department of Government Efficiency.

Brown in March 1922

The United States Bureau of Efficiency ^[1] was a bureau under the United States federal government from 1916 to 1933. The Woodrow Wilson administration established this bureau for creating efficiency ratings "for the classified service in the several executive departments in the District of Columbia". ^{[2] [3] [4]} Prior to 1916, its efforts had been organized under the Division of Efficiency within the United States Civil Service Commission. ^[5] The bureau was discontinued when Franklin D. Roosevelt assumed the presidency in 1933.

In 1915, Woodrow Wilson, then president of the United States, appointed Herbert D. Brown to head the bureau. ^[6]

References

1. "REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY FOR THE PERIOD FROM NOVEMBER 1, 1924 TO OCTOBER 31, 1925" (PDF). United States Government Publishing Office. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 12, 2024. Retrieved November 12, 2024.
2. Efficiency, United States. Bureau of (1919). Annual Report of the United States Bureau of Efficiency. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 1–. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
3. Lee, Mordecai (2006). Institutionalizing Congress and the Presidency: The U.S. Bureau of Efficiency, 1916-1933. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN   9781603445351 . Retrieved 7 February 2017.
4. Fawcett, Waldon (1922). "Building a Model Filing System". The Office Economist. 4. Art Metal Construction Company: 7–.
5. Gallivan, James A. (1919). "Bureau of Efficiency". The Postal Record. National Association of Letter Carriers. p. 69. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
6. "Brown, Herbert D. (Herbert Daniel), 1870-1963". National Archives and Records Administration. Archived from the original on 7 February 2017. Retrieved 7 February 2017.