The
Director-General of the State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA), Edward
Boateng has blamed the low productivity and performance in the public service
on the lack of sanctions in the service.
The SIGA boss
intimated that, unlike the private sector which sanctions people for low performance
and productivity, same cannot be said for the public service which is often
left unguarded without targets expected of staff.
Bemoaning the
situation on Face to Face on Citi TV, Mr. Boateng said “there
are no sanctions for non-delivery in Ghana and that is a problem. There are
KPIs [key performance indicators] but people don’t enforce the KPIs and what we
are doing now is to ensure that we enforce the government’s KPIs.”
He added that
the government has adopted a new approach where workers in the public service
sign a performance contract that is reviewed yearly to put low-performing
state-owned enterprises and their staff in check.
He however
acknowledged that “there are genuine problems that we have to consider, and we
are working through them by instituting an award scheme to reward those who are
doing well and also shame those who are not doing well.”
“Like the
president said to us in Kwahu, he congratulated TDC [Tema Development Council]
and the others at the top but also those who are at the bottom five are
expected to move up,” he further stressed
He also
disclosed that “the responsibility matrix we use is helping to push people who
are put in charge SOEs to realize that they have to perform or the torch will
be shone on them and so this is making people to move away from the kiosk
mentality to a corporate mentality and we are making headways”.
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