At 19:32 11/26/96 -0800, Jane Wood writes:
>HOW DO YOU BRING CHANGE TO A GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION IN RELATION TO CAREER
>INCENTIVE PROGRAMS. ADMINISTRATORS DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE DEVELOPMENT OF
>EMPLOYEES WHILE WORKING WITHIN AN INCENTIVE PROGRAM.
Jane and the LO List:
there is a Public Sector Continuous Improvement site at
http://deming.eng.clemson.edu/pub/psci/index.html and it
give much information on the public sector and continuous
improvement.
I work for the State of Michigan Treasury. The Treasury is
embarking on a continuous improvement project and I will,
hopefully, become involved in this process. There is an excellent
document put out by the US Secretary of Labor's Task Force on
Excellence in State and Local Government through Labor-Management
Cooperation, and you can send e-mail to get a copy through the
above site.
The career incentive programs through the Michigan Civil Service are,
as far as I can tell, non-existant. The Treasury dropped any funding
of employee education and to rise in the hierarchy you need to apply
for a classification for which you 'qualify'. There is much work
to do here to provide incentive for talented people to stay and use
their talents. Management is typically not held responsible for
projects that go years beyond deadlines and millions of dollars over
budget. Criticism can lead to harassment and intimidation.
Instead of incentive to attract good people we have recently been
presented with a retirement plan that gives us incentive to retire
earlier. Obviously our administrators are intrested only in cutting
costs, to the detriment of government service, rather than using
alternative incentive programs to foster the growth of the state's
intellectual capital base. It's obvious that intellectual capital
is something that administration reserves to itself. I'm a technology
worker, involved in networking and data acquisition/storage/conversion,
and I feel I'm going nowhere here.
I'm embarking on a project of self-determination, but the state
usually responds slowly, if at all. This MUST change if we are to
get good people and processes here.
Tom Clifford
State of Michigan Treasury
74127.1161@compuserve.com
--Tom Clifford <74127.1161@CompuServe.COM>
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