From experts to bilingualism policy, succeeding federal governments keep making the exact same management errors.
Released Jul 22, 2023 – Last upgraded 8 hours ago – 2 minute read
I invested an overall of 45 years as an army officer, senior public servant (33 years), personal expert and executive director to a nationwide Indigenous company. In all that time, and consequently in my retirement years, I have actually been surprised at how succeeding federal governments and civil service administrations duplicate the very same organizational errors. I presume that present public servants, a lot of whom I’m in touch with, would not be totally free to make these remarks openly. I am. Here are my ideas:
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– The senior ranks of the general public service ought to stop spending for and listening about the general public service from academics and accounting/ seeking advice from companies who have little or minimal on-the-ground experience handling or serving the general public from within federal government.
– Every couple of years, succeeding federal governments choose to cut costs– typically by scaling down the general public service. Frequently deputies are advised to cut 5 to 10 percent of their costs. It leads to a free-for-all, with every department attempting to safeguard its resource base.
Modification the procedure. Make the cost savings through re-engineering and centralizing services that are duplicated in numerous departments. Examples consist of procurement– especially military procurement– and federal services in the Arctic. Produce a senior Minister for Arctic Affairs and centralize the services now supplied by a vast array of departments and firms into a single concentrated ministry. Ditto for procurement.
– Recruit more public servants from outdoors Ottawa into positions in Ottawa, personnel who have genuine experience serving Canadians. It ought to be necessary that visits to director basic or assistant deputy minister positions need functional experience, not simply policy experience.
– Stop the outrageous revolving door syndrome where people hopscotch from one task to another– often on a pr