CONFIDENTIAL
2
Manpower Planning
5.
A new Staff Planning Division has been established in
Civil Service Branch. It is now engaged on a study of
difficulties in recruitment to professional grades such as
Engineers, Architects and Surveyors where particular problems
are arising. The study will also serve as a pilot scheme for
a subsequent service-wide manpower review. Members of the new
division have been joined by officers from Public Works Department,
Medical & Health Department and the Royal Hong Kong Police Force
in a project under the guidance of Dr Cragin of Chinese University
to develop proposals for a Government computer-based human
resources management system. A greatly expanded scholarship
scheme has been introduced as an immediate response to the
implications of forecasts in the CSB submission to the Topley
Committee on post-secondary and technical education; this has
received financial approval and some fifty additional scholars
have already been selected.
Recruitment of Administrative Officers 1981-82
6.
26 candidates were recommended for appointment as a
result of the recruitment exercise carried out in Hong Kong.
Recruitment formalities on some of them are still being completed.
Offers of appointment have been made to 22 candidates, of whom
3 have declined and 19 have accepted (including 3 expatriates).
14 will report for duty in August 1981. PSC has also advised
favourably on the appointment of Major Farrar, an army officer,
and Mr LI Wang-fai, a retired Senior Education Officer.
CONFIDENTIAL
Page 75Page 76