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(ii) those who act as senior assistants, taking charge of a

specific area of a department's work and coordinating the work

of assistant directors.

From the study of departmental organisations we noted that departments

have from one to six levels of Directorate staff.

11.

We next considered whether:

(i) the presert number of levels of Directorate staff in a department

is really necessary;

(ii)

the relationships between the levels within a department

(vertical relativities) are correct;

•

12.

(iii)

the relationships between the levels across-the-board

(horizontal relativities) are correct.

the

A consideration of paragraph 11(i) is strictly not within our

terms of reference as the organisation of a department is a matter for

departments, the Government Secretariat and the Finance Committee of

the Legislative Council: our task is to advise on grading after the

organisation is established. However, we are en joined to comment on

anomalies, and it was clear from the paper put in by the Director of Public

Works that there is no organisational reason for/Deputy Director of Public

Works to be on a separate salary point at (D7). We therefore recommend

that this post be on the same level as the Directors of the Departments (D6)

within the Public Works Department. We also noted that one Group II

department had in mind proposing a senior assistant director level between

the deputy (D5) and assistant directors (D2). We concluded that only

Group I departments warranted such a level, and that in Group II and III

departments it should be possible to organise work by using existing

ranks.

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