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HONG KONG GOVERNMENT INFORMATION

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Monday, May 1, 1972

ADMINISTRATORS AMONG PROFESSIONALS

Director of Social Welfare Opens First-Ever Seminar

The Hon. G.T. Rowe, Director of Social Welfare, said today even

professional social workers and specialists must still learn to be

administrators and managers because they could not shift from one role

to the other "just like that."

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He was speaking to 26 senior social workers at the start of an

eight-day seminar in Lee Gardens on social welfare management

first of its kind in Hong Kong.

In the audience was Mr. F. Lee Siew-kwong, the Director of

Social Welfare in Singapore, who had come especially to participate in the seminar and "to share with us his very considerable management experience

in government generally, and in social welfare in particular."

Mr. Rowe said management was "a complex business," and how far

it could be taught, in an academic sense, or how far it had to be learned

by practical experience was "a matter of opinion."

But he thought there was general agreement that one of the most

effective ways of improving management performance was to bring together

those who were doing a management job "to consider, analyse, and discuss

how the job should best be done."

Mr. Rowe