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(ii) those who act as senior assistants, taking charge of a
specific area of a department's work and coordinating the work
of assistant directors.
From the study of departmental organisations we noted that departments
have from one to six levels of Directorate staff.
11.
We next considered whether:
(i) the presert number of levels of Directorate staff in a department
is really necessary;
(ii)
the relationships between the levels within a department
(vertical relativities) are correct;
•
12.
(iii)
the relationships between the levels across-the-board
(horizontal relativities) are correct.
the
A consideration of paragraph 11(i) is strictly not within our
terms of reference as the organisation of a department is a matter for
departments, the Government Secretariat and the Finance Committee of
the Legislative Council: our task is to advise on grading after the
organisation is established. However, we are en joined to comment on
anomalies, and it was clear from the paper put in by the Director of Public
Works that there is no organisational reason for/Deputy Director of Public
Works to be on a separate salary point at (D7). We therefore recommend
that this post be on the same level as the Directors of the Departments (D6)
within the Public Works Department. We also noted that one Group II
department had in mind proposing a senior assistant director level between
the deputy (D5) and assistant directors (D2). We concluded that only
Group I departments warranted such a level, and that in Group II and III
departments it should be possible to organise work by using existing
ranks.
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