OPM's Human Capital Assessment and Accountability Framework, developed in conjunction with OMB and GAO, presents consolidated guidance on standards for success and performance indicators that agencies can refer to as they transform their strategic human capital management programs. For example, it includes such strategic workforce planning indicators as whether agencies use best practices to determine workloads and resource needs and have documented strategies for workforce planning that define roles, responsibilities, and other requirements of the strategies.[Footnote 32] As we stated in January 2003, the framework represents a promising step that can improve agencies' human capital systems.[Footnote 33] Agencies can use its indicators as a basis for developing, implementing, and evaluating their workforce planning processes. Generally, agencies will need more specific indicators to measure the success of their workforce plans. (See fig. 6 for information on SSA's evaluation of retirement-related workforce strategies.):
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