All posts tagged "senior civil service"

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  Senior civil servants to be replaced by AI, says Indonesia’s president

  In a surprise announcement, Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo has ordered government agencies to replace top civil servants with artificial intelligence (AI) during 2020. The president announced the decision to a

  • Posted December 5, 2019
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  Irish government commission calls for new pay review body

  Ireland’s Public Service Pay Commission has called for the re-establishment of a dedicated review body to examine pay in the civil and public service, after a government report found that

  • Posted October 25, 2019
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  UK loosens rules on pay and bonuses – but with no new money

  The UK government is set to ditch further aspects of its ‘forced distribution’ performance management framework – allowing more senior civil servants (SCS) to receive bonuses – and give departments

  • Posted May 23, 2019
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  Australia to reform senior executive recruitment

  The Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) is shaking up the way it hires its most senior executives, in a bid to speed up recruitment, improve coordination between departments and sharpen

  • Posted January 24, 2019
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  Political influence undermining Balkan appointments, report warns

  The systems for recruiting senior civil servants in Balkan states aren’t robust enough to ensure professional competence, according to a new report by Support for Improvement in Governance and Management (SIGMA)

  • Posted July 18, 2018
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  Court appeal to decide Northern Ireland civil servants’ powers as political shut-down continues

  A Northern Ireland government department is to appeal against a court ruling that senior civil servants have exceeded their remit, in a bid to win clarity over officials’ powers and

  • Posted May 22, 2018
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  Zina Etheridge, Chief Executive, London Borough of Haringey: Exclusive Interview

  Local authority officials often take jobs in central government, but few senior civil servants make the shift to council roles. The UK’s Zina Etheridge has travelled in both directions: she

  • Posted March 22, 2018
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  UK’s revolving door rules not applied properly, watchdog says

  British government departments are failing to apply rules that are designed to prevent corruption when civil servants move to the private sector, the public spending watchdog has found. A study

  • Posted August 11, 2017
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  Singapore civil service chief Peter Ong set to retire

  Former policeman Leo Yip is to take over as head of the Singapore Civil Service on 1 September, when the incumbent Peter Ong retires after seven years in the top

  • Posted July 19, 2017
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  Global Government Summit report; part 4

  In a world of complex, cross-cutting challenges, how do governments get departments to collaborate on shared goals? Estonia and Malaysia have taken very different approaches to the problem, as their

  • Posted June 8, 2017
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