Citizens require of their public service to be honest, impartial, meritocratic and drawn from the full spectrum of a nation’s constituent communities. Public value challenges senior public servants to think about how they gain legitimacy for their actions as public service leaders, and how this is derived from their relationship with their citizens, customers and stakeholders. It is the responsibility of the Public Service Commission (PSC) to advocate and enforce the values of integrity, impartiality, and fairness across the public service organisations.
Its Commissioners are required to present core public service values in all activities and in the ongoing development and enhancement of policies, systems and processes, whilst remaining impartial and delivering services to their staff and citizens with public value at the core of all their duties and responsibilities.
This concentrated workshop will provide in-depth, practical orientation in the role of the modern public service commissioner and seeks to assist both experienced and newly appointed Commissioners in developing necessary leadership and people management skills and practices that will assist in supporting their essential activities in recruitment, selection, mobility, conduct, performance, redeployment and retirement of civil servants.
A core feature of the workshop is to improve the effectiveness of Commissioners and their senior staff in working with government, parliamentarians and others involved in the preparation, planning, implementation and enforcement of Civil Service Codes and Laws.