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are often to be found in matters of staff management within

departments.

As Miss Dunn has pointed out, we need to

strengthen the consultative process at this level. As a

start we must now re-think the role of 7partmental Staff

Consultative Councils in the light of the decision to establish

a new standing body to keep under review salary scales and

class structures. I believe the aim should then be to

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develop Staff Consultative Councils into more effective

instruments for resolving matters which are within the

Head of Department's authority.

21.

Good staff management is no less important and

there is clearly much that requires to be done, and done

with despatch. Some of the measures we are now studying

will necessarily be medium or long term in their effect,

but there are three particular measures which we can and

should adopt now:

1.

First,

we should attach much greater weight

to skills in staff management when

assessing an officer's suitability

for advancement to any post or rank

having management responsibilities.

I propose to implement this forthwith.

Second, We should give greater weight to the

provision of an adequate management

Third,

capability when considering departmental

proposals for expansion or reorganisation.

Greater weight should be given to the

subject of staff management in all

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