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(b) promoting a greater sense of corporate
identity both within departments and within
the civil service;
(c) improved management of the Directorate;
(a) implementation of the new staff appraisal
procedures;
(e) better manpower planning for the civil
service with particular emphasis on demand
and supply at graduate level;
(f) action to improve working conditions in
selected departments.
Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service
3.
Both Report No.4 dealing with Consultative Machinery
in the Civil Service and Report No. 5 dealing with most of the
matters left for further consideration in Report No. 2 were
approved by the Governor-in-Council during the last quarter of
1980. Reaction to Report No. 4 is generally favourable.
Reaction to Report No. 5 has been low key, except for the
controversial proposals to extend certain fringe benefits to
married women officers (see para. 19 below) which are now being
re-examined. There has been mild expression of discontent from
certain education grades, but the majority of the approximately
40,000 staff on MOD 1 appear to be happy with the Standing
Commission's recommendations in Report No. 5.
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