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11.
The task of managing the Government machine has
now become so complex that there is in my view a need to
employ more professional administrators, and I foresee a wider
use of Administrative Officers outside the Government
Secretariat as more become available.
12.
I welcome the constructive views expressed by
Mr Cheong-leen, Dr Fang, Miss Dunn and Mr Wong Lam on
the need for a salaries commission, or other suitable
machinery, to help resolve the salary and structure problems
which have recently been giving rise to unwelcome friction
within the civil service.
13.
Our present class structure and salary scales
are based on the recommendations of the 1971 Salaries
Commission.
These have served us well, but, inevitably,
as the years pass and circumstances change the need to
review them grows stronger. Certainly, the aspirations
of civil servants seem to me to have changed markedly in
recent years, as has the social and economic environment
within which the civil service operates.
14.
As Dr Fang has pointed out, the present arrange-
ments for settling pay and structure problems within the
civil service are no longer effective. They may well have
been appropriate when the service was smaller and less
complex, when staff associations were fewer and less
active, and when management was still able to take most
decisions with little or no consultation with staff.
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