Effective public
service personnel management, is currently constrained by the lack of
appropriate organisational structures, inadequate staffing levels, low
salaries, lack of job descriptions and job classification systems, weak
establishment control and manpower planning systems, inadequate personnel
management information systems and overall public service costs.. To
allow for substantial improvements with regard to pay and compensation
in the public service, the Government has decided to tackle the critical
issue of performance management, to gradually reduce the number of public
servants and to replace non-productive government staff with more results-oriented
employees.
(from policy matrix)
Downsize civil service employment by 5 percent
of civil service employment -- 2001-02
11. Overall expenditure
will be restrained while ensuring increased funding for critical areas.
Operations, maintenance, and local counterpart spending will be increased
for key social services in support of poverty reduction, especially
for primary education and basic health services, and for vital social
and economic infrastructure (in particular for rural development). The
wage bill will be increased by 20 percent to partially compensate for
past inflation. The size of the civil service will be reduced by 5 percent
by the end of 2001/02. Subsidies to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) will
continue to be avoided.