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Professional administration with the emphasis on project control.
It is emphasised that this study has not attempted to evaluate the degree of success or failure of any officer or working unit within a department. The basic objective was to gain knowledge of, and to evaluate, personal attitudes towards accountability by way of frank and open discussion. The emphasis was always placed upon the positive aspects and the advantage to be gained from the application of accountability. To give the study a wider perspective discussions were also held with people from business, commerce and the academic world in Hong Kong. Reference was also made to a range of books and articles on management theory, organisation of government, the findings of crime and corruption commissions elsewhere in the world, etc., insofar as they were thought to be relevant to Hong Kong. Lastly, regard has been paid to the information found and views obtained in the assignments undertaken by the Corruption Prevention Department. A list of persons with whom discussions were held is at Appendix I. These discussions were held between January and July 1977. Information given and attitudes reflected during these discussions are therefor€ somewhat dated, but they do not in any way detract from the general conclusions reached in this report.
The views, opinions, ideas, and facts given in this report therefore represent an amalgam of findings from personal discussions, some reading and research and the collective experience of the Corruption Prevention Department. There can be no statistical reliability in the findings; any attempt at a form of probability sampling would have been inconclusive. However, the recurrence of many common denominators in the attitudes, views, and actual management and organisational situations make the findings in this study no less.
valid.
This report aims at presenting a brief survey of the organisational situations found in Government, the problems of control and discipline, the external factor the public's reaction to the processes of Government and then the important question of attitudes. In the final chapter, broad but positive conclusions are drawn as to how the concept of supervisory accountability can be better practised. The principal value of these conclusions will be to serve as the basis for a continuing, positive and determined effort within the Government itself to promote the application of supervisory accountability, and to foster the attitudes which are necessary to achieve this fundamental aspect of good management.
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