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(b) promoting a greater sense of corporate

identity both within departments and within

the civil service;

(c) improved management of the Directorate;

(a) implementation of the new staff appraisal

procedures;

(e) better manpower planning for the civil

service with particular emphasis on demand

and supply at graduate level;

(f) action to improve working conditions in

selected departments.

Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service

3.

Both Report No.4 dealing with Consultative Machinery

in the Civil Service and Report No. 5 dealing with most of the

matters left for further consideration in Report No. 2 were

approved by the Governor-in-Council during the last quarter of

1980. Reaction to Report No. 4 is generally favourable.

Reaction to Report No. 5 has been low key, except for the

controversial proposals to extend certain fringe benefits to

married women officers (see para. 19 below) which are now being

re-examined. There has been mild expression of discontent from

certain education grades, but the majority of the approximately

40,000 staff on MOD 1 appear to be happy with the Standing

Commission's recommendations in Report No. 5.

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