How much more can a lumbering civil service take?
In most countries, the Malaysian ratio of civil servants to population would be unacceptable. Such a bloated entity can nowadays be found in only countries which still practice some outmoded socialist type of governance. Yet here it is still the only resort for some of the educated and jobless and the hopeful.
Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Samsudin Osman has promised to expedite the process of filling up the 30,000 vacant posts in the government service. He said the Public Service Department (JPA) has been directed to expedite the process of shortlisting and interviewing potential candidates for the vacant posts, including the 30,000 jobs available for diploma and degree holders. Graduates would be given priority to fill the vacant posts as the government was keen to reduce the number of unemployed graduates in the country.
Although I cannot personally confirm this, many dedicated public servants of the past still relate, that the work done by one or two senior officers in the sixties and seventies was later rehashed and split among one or two senior ones as well as several timbalan and another half a dozen penolong aided by a score of kerani and other kakitangan pejabat. What a waste of manpower and reduplication of duties! No wonder efficiency rapidly went down the drain as the intake of civil servants went up.
I sometimes wonder what goes on in the mind of these senior civil servants like the Chief Secretary and the DGs when they are coerced into expanding the service by increasing the intake. Whether they privately decry or express their frustration at the folly of politicians, we'll never know until it's time to write their memoirs. But chances are these same senior officers might have a child or two in the service as well, and they'd probably think that if they were to expose any of the skeletons in so many government cupboards, their childrens' future in the service may be affected. This could be one reason why there aren't any explicit revelations from retired civil service mandarins thus far. Can't blame them.
In the meanwhile the lumbering civil service slowly trudges forward, awkwardly struggling and trying very hard not to be crushed by it's own weight. So sad.
Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Samsudin Osman has promised to expedite the process of filling up the 30,000 vacant posts in the government service. He said the Public Service Department (JPA) has been directed to expedite the process of shortlisting and interviewing potential candidates for the vacant posts, including the 30,000 jobs available for diploma and degree holders. Graduates would be given priority to fill the vacant posts as the government was keen to reduce the number of unemployed graduates in the country.
Although I cannot personally confirm this, many dedicated public servants of the past still relate, that the work done by one or two senior officers in the sixties and seventies was later rehashed and split among one or two senior ones as well as several timbalan and another half a dozen penolong aided by a score of kerani and other kakitangan pejabat. What a waste of manpower and reduplication of duties! No wonder efficiency rapidly went down the drain as the intake of civil servants went up.
I sometimes wonder what goes on in the mind of these senior civil servants like the Chief Secretary and the DGs when they are coerced into expanding the service by increasing the intake. Whether they privately decry or express their frustration at the folly of politicians, we'll never know until it's time to write their memoirs. But chances are these same senior officers might have a child or two in the service as well, and they'd probably think that if they were to expose any of the skeletons in so many government cupboards, their childrens' future in the service may be affected. This could be one reason why there aren't any explicit revelations from retired civil service mandarins thus far. Can't blame them.
In the meanwhile the lumbering civil service slowly trudges forward, awkwardly struggling and trying very hard not to be crushed by it's own weight. So sad.
posted by The Malaysian. at 7/13/2006 09:45:00 PM
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