WHERE RESPONSIBILITIES LIE
The responsibilities for Human Resource Management rest with the Civil Service
Branch, policy branches, departments, managers and individual civil servants.
· Civil Service Branch determines and communicates overall Human Resource
Management policies and advises departments on the implementation of these
policies.
· Policy branches and departments are responsible for implementing central Human
Resource Management policy and developing the HRM plans to meet their own
needs.
· Managers and individual civil servants have personal responsibility for putting
policy into practice.
CIVIL SERVICE BRANCH
The Civil Service Branch sets the strategic direction according to which civil servants
are managed, and performs a number of central functions. To do so it:
Strategic Role :
o develops and promotes policies, standards and good practices in the management of
civil servants; and
o implements these policies through discussions, explanations, guidelines, regulations
and circulars.
Central Functions :
o determines and communicates overall Human Resource Management policy and
standards of best practice;
o advises departments on the implementation of policies and the development of their
Human Resource Management plans;
o formulates pay and conditions of service, fringe benefits and allowances and also
deals with proposals for changes to structures of grades/ranks and for creation of
directorate posts in the light of advice from independent standing bodies;
o deals with appointment, promotion (including succession planning) and discipline
relating to senior positions, taking into account the advice from the Public Service
Commission. It also processes cases relating to staff complaints, early retirement,
legal assistance for civil servants, and benefits for retired civil servants;
o ensures service-wide comparability between grades and ranks with similar
responsibilities;
o consults with major staff associations; and