California Code, Government Code - GOV § 13879

(a) Counsel with and provide co-ordination to the heads of departments in the development and application of effective controls over manpower and administrative and operating costs.

(b) Develop and foster the adoption of improved methods, procedures, and performance standards to achieve more efficient accomplishment of necessary work and more effective utilization of manpower.

(c) Counsel with and provide co-ordination to the heads of departments in the design of job and position content to ensure that they are consistent with productivity and relative importance to the state government.

(d) Maintain authoritative current records of actual employment of approved manpower allowables or manning tables for each state agency and in such form that they may be compared and reconciled with manpower allowables.

(e) At appropriate intervals, report on the effectiveness of manpower and cost control measures by each state agency.

(f) As directed or requested, conducts   1 studies of the manpower of departments and agencies of the state government, or of any of their components, as a basis for recommending improved manpower utilization, methods, procedures, and performance standards, the elimination of unnecessary or duplicative work and wasteful practices, and the adjustment of the work force to the established workload.