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INFORMATION AND FEEDBACK. Exercise # 1. Item 1. The graded papers are now residing with Diana in SPEA 230. Don’t you all Keep me waiting Mind. Feedback. Ask him if we can text-message it…. He said no. I have posted some observations on your website based on reading all the papers.
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INFORMATION AND FEEDBACK Exercise # 1
Item 1 • The graded papers are now residing with Diana in SPEA 230 Don’t you all Keep me waiting Mind.
Feedback Ask him if we can text-message it… He said no. • I have posted some observations on your website based on reading all the papers. • Now, I would like you all to send me an electronic version of your paper #1 so that I can have them available as a resource. It is quite OK to remove your name. • Please do this a.s.a.p.
Here are some other thoughts • You need to think about the Provenance of your country’s civil service. • For instance, some are transitioning toward democracy away from left- or right-wing authoritarianism. • Thus, the civil service is in a state of flux.
Implication And how may I help you today? • The civil service, or bureaucracy is inherited, and cannot be disbanded instantly. • So you have to work with an instrument that was not fashioned for your purposes.
Public Service and Civil Service • I just let you use the definitions appropriate to your particular case. • However, there is an enormous difference from country to country. • Public service would contain all categories paid from the public purse, while the civil service would be the full-time bureaucrats.
scale Should we send troops to Iraq? • How far down the scale line does the public service go? • It varies from country to country in terms of definition.
Gray areas • What to do about QUANGOs, Boards and Commissions? • A Royal Commission was a guaranteed way of burying an issue for ever.
Checks and Balances • Anti-Corruption Unit • A Free Press • An Ombudsman