Thursday, March 28, 1974
CONSULTANTS TO UNDERTAKE MAJOR TRAINING PROGRAMME
The McKinsey consultants will be returning to Hong Kong next
month on the first of two follow-up assignments.
Announcing this to-day, a government spokesman said that one
of their main tasks would be to undertake a major training programme,
which they were unable to do last year because of their pre-occupation
with the overhaul of administrative procedures and recommendations for
the reorganisation of the central government machinery.
"Before they left last year, they conducted four seminars for
a total of some 60 senior officers who were to be principally involved
in setting up and working the new management machinery envisaged," he
Baid.
"It has become clear that it is desirable that they should continue
and expand this initial training programme, at an opportune time, to
include more staff at senior and middle management levels. The object
will be to ensure that the changes introduced, and the principles and
practices involved, are fully understood and properly applied.
"The new machinery of government has now been set up, and the
policy and resource branches in the Secretariat are functioning along
the lines recommended. But much remains to be done to ensure that everyone
concerned is thoroughly familiar with the new procedures."
The spokesman said that each of the two visits planned for this
purpose would last three months. The first would commence in mid-April
and the second at the end of September,
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