Prime Minister calls for introduction of contracts

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PRIME Minister James Marape has directed the Department of Personnel Management (DPM) and the Public Service to introduce a five-year contract for every public servant.
At the public service dedication service on Friday, Marape told them that every public servant, down to the lowest staff, must be put on a contract.
He said currently only the departmental heads were linked to contracts and they came in and go out but the body and mass of public servants remained below the radar of scrutiny.
“DPM, it’s about time you take stock of general orders and every public servant should be attached to a key performance indicator based-system contract.
“None of you will be free running around. I’m proposing a five-year contract term for every public servant to the lowest officer we have in our system. Every public servant right across will have a contract-based attachment to the state and in the term of your contract.
“If you are not delivering consistently, then you will not be kept any more in the public service.
“If you don’t step up, this is an early exit for you and saving on the country’s part.”

3 comments

  • That is ok, but if there is another way of motivating the public servants to perform, then try all options available.
    Human resource is something you can not used cheaply .Only humans make things happen not machine ,having said that, here is an example you get 10 people trained them up and give them each a chain saw to fell 10 trees each in a day ,only one will cut 10 trees,the others might cut 6-9 trees the rest might cut 5 tress,yet they all get paid the same amount come fortnight, yet the wheels keeps turning.You remove all employees in five years and employ new lot and you keep repeating the same process over and over again. without actually archiving any better result.

  • Are the incentive programs at the public service effective enough to boost employee morale? Every organisation should enforce their incentive programs to really see results being delivered.

  • i totally agree with incentives but there’s one more thing I would like to point also apart from incentives, I would rather prefer that there must be decentralization of financial powers. Normally with National Department, Budget are passed by national Government year in year out with only the head of Department to have access to Budget while its branches in various Provinces through the country is not recepient to the budget. Normal the budget just disappear at Waigaini while rest of the Province is missing out on this Budgets. Therefore when you look around country many departments are now falling apart. There’s no maintenances and improvement in various services to our citizen, therefore I for one would like to suggest that there must be decentralization of financial Powers given too every Departments in every Provinces throughout the country and not allowing Departmental heads to have monopolly over the use of Budget. Indoing so e’will take PNG back

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