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THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1992
MR BLAKE SAID
IT WAS
ENCOURAGING
TO NOTE
THE
THAT PRESENT INDICATIONS HAD SHOWN THAT THERE WAS LESS CONSUMPTION NOW THAN AT SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR.
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THIS YEAR, AND IF
HE SAID,
"A GENERAL REVIEW WILL BE CONDUCTED LATER NECESSARY, THE LONG-TERM DEMAND FORECAST WILL BE REVISED,
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NEED TO DEVELOP CIVIL SERVANTS FOR CHANGE STRESSED
PREPARING CIVIL SERVANTS FOR THE CHALLENGES OF SUBJECT WHICH THE GOVERNMENT TAKES VERY SERIOUSLY.
CIVIL
CHANGE IS A
SERVICE,
MR
THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR THE BARRIE WIGGHAM, TODAY (THURSDAY) AT THE OPENING OF A TRAINING CONFERENCE JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE HONG KONG INSTITUTE MANAGEMENT, THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR TRAINING THE INSTITUTE OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT.
OF PERSONNEL AND DEVELOPMENT, AND
MUST WHICH
BE BEST USE OF HUMAN
MR WIGGHAM SAID IT WAS ALSO A RESPONSIBILITY SHARED BY ALL THOSE CONCERNED WITH MAKING THE RESOURCES.
"IT
HAS BECOME A TRUISM TO SAY THAT HONG KONG HAS RESOURCES EXCEPT ITS PEOPLE.
NO NATURAL
RESOURCE: AS "BUT IT IS THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE MOST VALUABLE
AT THIS SUCH THEY NEED NURTURING, AND WE, THE MANAGERS, ESPECIALLY
CAN TO DEVELOP TIME IN THIS PLACE, HAVE A DUTY TO DO ALL THAT WE PEOPLE FOR A CHANGE.
"
COMMON
HE POINTED OUT THAT PEOPLE, COLLECTIVELY WORKING FOR A PURPOSE, NEED MANAGEMENT; AND ONE ASPECT OF MANAGEMENT WAS TRAINING WHICH PROVIDED THE INDIVIDUAL WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO FURTHER HIS OR HER POTENTIAL.
DEVELOP
HONG
KONG GOVERNMENT HAS FOR MANY YEARS BEEN A GREAT
BELIEVER
IN TRAINING.
"WE
IS CIVIL
A
то NEED
BE," HE SAID, "THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT BY PROVIDED 'SERVICE INDUSTRY' : OUR OUTPUT IS THE SERVICES SERVANTS AND PEOPLE ARE THEREFORE OUR MAIN ASSET, OR LIABILITY IF THEY DO NOT DO THEIR JOB PROPERLY.
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BUT
WE ALSO THEY ARE
WE NOT ONLY TRY TO RECRUIT THE RIGHT PEOPLE, SPEND A LOT OF EFFORT GIVING THEM ADEQUATE TRAINING AFTER RECRUITED.
THE CIVIL SERVICE TRAINING CENTRE WAS SET UP IN 1961.
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