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TWENTY-FIVE senior officers from the
Department of Personnel Management (DPM) are undergoing a workshop in
Alotau to learn new techniques on improving work performance
The Secretary for the DPM and the Public Sector Reform Management Unit (PSRMU)
are co-sponsoring the workshop.
It is being attended by team leaders from different divisions of DPM,
who are they key staff engaged in identifying systems, processes and
procedures.
They are responsible for the provision of technical and advisory
services to department heads, provincial administrators, statutory
authorities and their staff when called upon.
The Alotau DPM team was divided into two groups – one was made up of the
department’s process owners while the second group was identified as the
process experts.
Both teams made up what was known as the service improvement team (SIT)
for DPM that would take charge of the ongoing service improvement
modules training to be delivered in-house within the department.
This workshop was being conducted outside the department’s immediate
premise which was aimed at bringing senior officers, (a sort of a
retreat for all of the concerned).
The DPM had been the most criticised entity of the central agencies by
individuals and agencies having to do with personnel matters - from
appointing department secretaries to provincial administrators.
This was the first time honest and unhindered environment was created so
that officers were made to feel free to engage in in-depth dialogue over
many issues that faced the DPM that is also the member of the Central
Agencies Coordinating Committee (CACC).
It was hoped that the workshop participants would see their role and
responsibilities much more clearly as they related the service
improvement programme (SIP) modules and/or tools of analysis and problem
solving.
Department of Personnel Management Secretary Margaret Elias, who
sanctioned the out-of-town training workshop, was pleased that DPM had
been accepted to the SIP.
She said this had ensured the Alotau workshop would be the basis for
sustaining, diversifying and delivering SIP training to DPM.
SIP is the project of PNG Government under its Public Sector Reform
Programme initiatives which first began operations in 2002.
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