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Public organizations must be
responsive to changing environment - Issachar
Accra, March 19, GNA - Mr Joe D. Issachar, Head of the Civil
Service, on Monday called for a new approach to organizing
and managing public organizations to make them efficient and
responsive to the changing environment.
He also called for the acquisition of the necessary skills
and tools to tackle the multi-faceted nature and
complexities of public administration.
Mr Issachar was speaking at the opening of a five-day
workshop organized by the Head of the Civil Service in
collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation
Agency (JICA) on organizational changes and transition in
public administration.
The workshop being attended by 25 participants from the
Ministries, Departments and Agencies is under the theme:
"Leading Organizational Change and Transition."
Mr Issachar said even though the Ghana Civil Service had
gone through a number of reform initiatives since the 1980s
geared towards enhancing efficiency and performance of the
Service, they did not appear to have achieved much success.
He said the change that the public expected in the Civil
Service could not happen by themselves without the essential
ingredient of managing the people side of change.
He called for the infusion of new ideas and innovations that
would improve and lead to progress and growth in public
administration.
Mr Issachar commended the Japanese Government for supporting
the Civil Service in the Capacity Development Administration
Project to address issues of efficiency, high performance
and productivity improvement.
He said the workshop marked the commencement of a series of
training programmes to be held in Ghana, Singapore and
Malaysia where some personnel from the Civil Service would
be sent from time to time.
Mr Hiroshi Murakami, a Representative of JICA, said the
objective of the programme was to prepare the participants
for the change and transition ahead.
He urged participants to apply the knowledge acquired during
the training workshop to the Ghanaian context.
Mr Shahrill Abdul Jalil of the Civil Service College
International of Singapore, who is the resource person for
the programme, said the training workshop was to expose the
participants to the new concepts in public administration.
GNA
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