WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1990
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HONG KONG WELL SERVED BY THE CIVIL SERVICE
票
PUBLIC
AND STORIES THE HON
HONG KONG COMMUNITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN WELL SERVED BY ITS SERVICE, NOTWITHSTANDING OCCASIONAL DRAMATIC HEADLINES ABOUT INDIVIDUALS OR SMALL MINORITIES, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID FORD, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
OF
TO
CONCLUDING THE RESUMED DEBATE ON THE GOVERNOR'S POLICY ADDRESS, SIR DAVID SAID AT A TIME WHEN IT HAD BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THE IMAGE THE SERVICE AS A WHOLE HAD BEEN DAMAGED BY THE FEW, IT WAS AS WELL REMEMBER AND TO GIVE CREDIT TO THE VAST MAJORITY OF CIVIL SERVANTS WHO WAS LOYAL, DAY AFTER DAY CONTINUED TO PROVE THAT OUR PUBLIC SERVICE DEDICATED AND EFFICIENT.
BUT
OPINION "AND IN SAYING THIS I AM NOT SIMPLY RELYING ON MY OWN
FROM OVERSEAS DRAWING ON THE MANY PERSONAL COMMENTS WE RECEIVE
SIR DAVID SAID. POLITICIANS, ACADEMICS AND BUSINESSMEN,
AT
WAS
THIS TIME OF TRANSITION, SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT IT INEVITABLE THAT ADDITIONAL DEMANDS WERE PLACED ON OUR PUBLIC SERVICE.
BY ARE
WE CHANGE,
LOOK "IN MANY
AS WE SURROUNDED WAYS, INCREASINGLY TO THE CIVIL SERVICE TO PROVIDE THE CONTINUITY WHICH WILL
" HE SAID. PROVE ESSENTIAL AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE NINETIES AND BEYOND,
NUMBER TO REDUCE
SIR DAVID SAID HE AGREED WITH THE SUGGESTION MADE BY A MEMBERS THAT THERE WAS A NEED FOR EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT BUREAUCRACY AND INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY OF THE SERVICE.
OF
GRADES AND
"WITH A WORKFORCE OF SOME 190,000, MORE THAN 400 SOME 60 GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT IS ESSENTIAL.
"IT IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE IF IT EVER WERE BE THOUGHT OF AS A RESPONSIBILITY EXERCISED CENTRE.
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FOR MANAGEMENT TO EXCLUSIVELY FROM THE
"IN ITS RESPONSIBILITY ORGANIZATION:
SENSE, WIDEST OF ALL THOSE IN THE GOVERNMENT, DEPARTMENTAL LEVEL.
SAID,
P
FOCAL
SIR DAVID
ROLE IN SUPERVISORY WHO PLAY A
POINT MUST OUR
MANAGEMENT
IS
THE
THE
BE
THE
ARE
THEREFORE
IN
THE
PROCESS
OF
DEVOLVING
MORE
:
"WE RESPONSIBILITIES TO HEADS OF DEPARTMENT.
IN TURN THIS MEANS THAT THEY
RESOURCES, BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF THEIR OWN HE SAID.
WILL
HEADS
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THE GOVERNMENT HAD RECENTLY, FOR INSTANCE, DELEGATED TO
APPOINTMENTS OF DEPARTMENT OR HEADS OF GRADE THE AUTHORITY TO APPROVE AND PROMOTIONS TO ALL POSTS BELOW DIRECTORATE LEVEL, SUBJECT ONLY
APPROPRIATE, THE THE ADVICE OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION WHERE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID.
"THIS COVERS 99 PER CENT OF THE CIVIL SERVICE.
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