Notice2021-25577
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Management and Organizational Practices Survey
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November 23, 2021
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 223 (Tuesday, November 23, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66520-66521]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-25577]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Management and Organizational Practices Survey
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on July 29, 2021 during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Commerce.
Title: Management and Organizational Practices Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0963.
Form Number(s): MP-10002.
Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for a Reinstatement,
with Change, of a Previously Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 51,000.
Average Hours per Response: 45 minutes.
Burden Hours: 38,250.
Needs and Uses: The 2021 Management and Organizational Practices
Survey (MOPS) will be conducted as a joint project by the Census
Bureau, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Stanford
School of Humanities and Sciences, and the Stanford Institute for
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. The MOPS will utilize the
Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) sample and collect information on
management and organizational practices at the establishment level.
Data obtained from the survey will allow the Census Bureau to estimate
a firm's stock of management and organizational assets, specifically
the use of establishment performance data, such as production targets
in decision-making and the prevalence of decentralized decision rights.
The results will provide information on investments in management and
organizational practices thus providing a better understanding of the
benefits
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from these investments when measured in terms of firm productivity or
firm market value.
The MOPS has been conducted periodically since 2010 and provides a
linkage to the Census Bureau's data sets on plant level outcomes. Since
every establishment in the MOPS sample is also in the ASM, the results
of MOPS 2015 were linked with certainty to annual performance data at
the plant level, including outcomes on sales, shipments, payroll,
employment, inventories, capital expenditure, and more for the period
2014-2018. There is no other source for the MOPS data collection.
Understanding the determinants of productivity growth is essential
to understanding the dynamics of the U.S. economy. The MOPS provides
information to assist in determining whether the large and persistent
differences in productivity across establishments (even within the same
industry) are partly driven by differences in management and
organizational practices. In addition to increasing the understanding
of the dynamics of the economy, MOPS data can provide insight to
policymakers interested in productivity growth or other metrics of
business performance into the current state of management and
organizational practices in the U.S. manufacturing sector. This insight
could inform economic forecasts or policies.
The MOPS provides information on differences in manufacturing
management and organizational practices by region, industry, and firm
size. These results can be used by U.S. manufacturing businesses to
benchmark their own management and organizational practices relative to
their peers and inform changes in those practices. The survey sponsors
have used the published tables and methodology documentation to set up
a self-scoring tool for benchmarking purposes. Similarly, interested
businesses can use the published tables to examine how their
implementation of specific practices compares to national rates of
adoption or use published tables in conjunction with the methodology
documentation to evaluate how their use of structured management
practices compares to subsector, state, establishment size class, and
establishment age class. Industry trade organizations may also wish to
communicate this information to their members. For example, a printing
industry publication communicated the results of the 2015 MOPS (<a href="https://whattheythink.com/data/85108-printing-industry-defined-managemen/">https://whattheythink.com/data/85108-printing-industry-defined-managemen/</a>),
and economic development agencies in Wisconsin cited the state's
ranking in the 2015 MOPS when announcing a program aimed at increasing
manufacturing productivity in the state (<a href="https://biztimes.com/new-initiative-aimed-at-addressing-manufacturing-productivity/">https://biztimes.com/new-initiative-aimed-at-addressing-manufacturing-productivity/</a>). Since the
MOPS data are also connected with annual performance data, the MOPS
results can directly aid policy discussions regarding what policymakers
can do to assist U.S. manufacturing companies as they react to a
changing economy.
The 2021 MOPS includes a new purchased services module on the
establishment's use of its own employees, contractors, temporary staff,
or leased workers for select business expenses. These data will help
the Census Bureau, businesses, and policymakers understand the
relationship between an important organizational decision--what
activities are the responsibility of the business's own employees and
what activities are contracted to other businesses--and business
outcomes such as growth and survivorship when linked with the ASM,
Economic Census, and Business Register.
For the 2021 MOPS, the Data and Decision Making module has been
modified to remove some existing components and expanded to include
questions focused on the frontier uses of data to inform artificial
intelligence. As such, the module has been re-titled ``Data, Decision
Making, and Artificial Intelligence.'' Understanding the
characteristics of businesses that rely upon data in making decisions
helps businesses and policymakers understand the role that data
collection and analysis play in business outcomes. By producing
statistics on the use of frontier technologies for decision making, the
Census Bureau can help businesses and policymakers identify potential
use cases for these technologies. In addition, the Census Bureau can
better plan future collections and reduce respondent burden if it
understands how businesses retain and analyze their own data.
Additionally, the 2021 MOPS includes three questions added to the
background characteristics module inquiring about an establishment's
use of an external Certified Public Accountant. Use of an external
Certified Public Accountant affects how businesses retain and review
their own data, which can have implications for management practices
and can help the Census Bureau plan future collections and reduce
respondent burden.
The 2021 MOPS simplified questions on the location of decision-
making in multi-location firms in the organization module by combining
them into a single table and removing write-in responses, removed some
forecasting questions in the uncertainty module, removed two background
characteristic questions, and removed all questions regarding a five-
year recall period.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: One time.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U/S.C. Sections 131 and 182.
This information collection request may be viewed at
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. Follow the instructions to view the Department of
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>.
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB
Control Number 0607-0963.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2021-25577 Filed 11-22-21; 8:45 am]
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