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Performance Management in the Public Sector

18 May 2006

Building knowledge and skills for the design and development of human resource management systems on performance management and performance-based results is one of the key areas of focus at an ongoing workshop on 'Managing Public Sector Human Resources -- Managing Performance in Public Services' in Singapore from 15 to 26 May 2006.

The workshop, which is part of a Singapore-Commonwealth Third Country Training Programme sponsored by the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation, will enhance the participants' understanding of global developments in public service organisations. The significance of performance management to organisational performance and success will also be discussed.

This pan-Commonwealth training will enable the 23 participants who are senior civil servants to be aware of global trends in strategic human resource management in the public sector, and performance management.

Taboka Nkhwa, Adviser, Human Resource Management, and Head of the Africa Section at the Governance and Institutional Development Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat, said participants will examine best practice performance management systems, and get a better idea of the requirements and implications for decentralised human resource management functions.

She stated that increased global pressure on public sector organisations to improve service delivery has compelled organisations to adopt and implement public sector reforms to meet emerging challenges. Some restraining factors faced by developing countries in response to such challenges, she pointed out, include inadequate technical and human capacities to deliver on reform initiatives; inadequate appreciation of contemporary developments in human resource management; and weak integration of reform strategies with human resource management systems, particularly those relating to performance management.

"Human resource has the greatest leverage in organisational transformation and it is necessary to develop a comprehensive strategy to facilitate better understanding of contemporary human resource management requirements and implications in public sector management among countries," added Ms Nkhwa.

 

CNIS - Commonwealth News and Information Service Issue 285, 17 May 2006

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