They provide the infrastructure so that the department's other programs can achieve their goals and objectives. Since administrative functions provide support to other programs to carry out their public purpose, it will only be in rare cases when Administrative Programs have outcome measures. For the most part, Administrative Programs will focus on output and, even more so, on efficiency measures. Measures should be designed to allow decision-makers to evaluate whether administrative services are efficient and effective. If an agency has a trend of high position vacancies, there may be a good reason for it.
Some positions require skills that are highly specialized.
If that happens occasionally, it will not adversely affect our performance measure.