HRMO D.G. Warns Managers By Salamatu L. Turay The Director General of the Human Resource Management Office (HRMO), Abdul Rashid Baryoh, has issued a stern warning to civil servants; especially Human Resource (HR) managers and officers not to try to please anybody in the discharge of their official duties. Mr. Baryoh issued this admonition during the opening session of a two-day working session in ‘Manpower Planning and Budgeting’ held at the Civil Service Training College, Tower Hill, Freetown, on 23rd July, 2013. He emphasized: “Don’t try to please anybody but please the government and your job.” He urged all HR managers and officers in the civil service to notify the HRMO as soon as possible of civil servants who are due for retirement to ensure that there is succession planning in their respective MDAs. He also cautioned them not to protect anyone and to prevent wastage in the Service. “The need to create the necessary path for other civil servants to progress”, he told them. Mr. Baryoh told them that they are the drivers of change in the Service in general and their MDAs in particular. They should feed the HRMO with the right information; stressing that whatever they give should be reliable, credible and accurate. “We want to ensure that the 2014 manpower budget should be sound to meet international standards,” he maintained. Human Resource planning and budgeting is now in the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) process. He noted that the session is a sign of reform in the Public Service - specifically the Civil Service and that it is a lifelong process. The right mix of human resource in the public service increases productivity and efficiency. The training was to build their capacity and also an opportunity for them to gather something they will even use after they have left the Service. “It is your determination that will lead you to success,” he stressed. Earlier, the HRMO Director of Human Resource Planning and Budgeting, Ansu S. Tucker, giving a background of the session said it is the development of improved medium-term budgeting for the Civil Service payroll costs. He said efficient management and development of human resource is crucial to success of the ongoing reforms in public financial management in the public service. Human resource manager and officers are considered the most important asset in any organization mainly because they form a significant part of the administrative costs and are use to achieve organizational goals. Mr. Tucker noted that the success or failure of an organization in achieving its mandate to a large extent depends on how it addresses or plans its human resource requirement. Planning in human resource is a major contributor to effectively attracting, retaining, developing succession plans, training and managing the Civil service workforce. Hence manpower planning and budgeting have been introduced to take a central stage in forecasting the manpower requirements of the civil service. He highlighted the objectives of the session is to enhance the capacity of HR managers and officers in MDAs in the preparation of manpower plans and budgets before inclusion in the MTEF budget. It also meant to enhance the knowledge and skills of human resource managers in MDAs in planning, forecasting and costing their manpower requirements. To provide formal procedure to assist HR managers in preparing manpower plans and budgets using HR planning forms. It is to ensure uniformity and efficiency in the preparation of MDAs draft manpower plans and budget proposals to the HRMO and Ministry of Finance as part of the MTEF process. To provide a forum for closer interaction between the HRMO and HR managers in MDAs and propose policies and strategies for improving planning and management of human resources and to understand the importance of HR planning in the rightsizing of the Civil Service. Statements was also made by the Director of Public Financial Management Reform Unit, Augustus Cole Facilitators were Ansu Tucker, representative of the Budget Bureau, Benjamin Sandy and deputy Director of Human Resource Planning and Budgeting at the HRMO, Swahilu K. Jusu.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:57:04 +0000
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