Personally i feel that we are not in the position to change the mentallity of the government servant in any near future. Study shows that the number of the government staff in malaysia is 4 times much bigger than in korea for example. Some says that the reason for the high number of government recruitment is meant to attract attention of the government staff to vote for the government in every election. While the accusation at the current political situation in the country is non relevant anymore but in many previous general election it could be one of the strategy by the BN government to give them more votes. Those were the accusation but base on my own observation and experiences in dealing with the government servant, there are clearly quite a number of sector in the certain ministry that is having shortage of qualified man power up until today. Example for those ministries are ministry of education ( teachers ) ministry of works and ministry of health ( engineers and doctors ).
Thus if we see the trend for the hiring of public sector staff in the country compared to other more developed country like korea or more underdeveloped country like cambodia or indonesia, i can sense the level of responsibility of the government in trying to improve the public sector services to the people. Since the slow pace and low productivity of the government staff has been the never ending culture and problems in public sector, hiring more government staff to improve the services to the people should be considered as a responsible temporary solution.
However, the measures to be taken to improve and motivate the government staff to further improve their performance gradually up until the level of the developed country government staff productivity level will need to be looked into and put in place asap. This is crucial in order to avoid the misconception of the people or certain quarters in playing the issue that the BN government is purposely trying to gain more votes by employing more government staff again and again.
Thus, the announcement by the PM on the exit policy for the non performance government staff should be the turning point in order to solve the issue, prove that the accusation are all wrong and improve the performance and productivity of every government personnel . The BN government can now then deliver all the promises given to the people in a more promising manner in the future with these more efficient implementation machinery which is newly being overhauled with the exit policy.
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