Papers Relating to the Re-organisation of the Civil ServiceGeorge E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1855 - 474 páginas |
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Página 156 - The . . . majority of the members of the Colonial Department in my time possessed only in a low degree, and some of them in a degree almost incredible, either the talents or the habits of men of business, or the industry, the zeal, or the knowledge required for the effective performance of their appropriate functions.
Página 4 - Admission into the Civil Service is indeed eagerly sought after, but it is for the unambitious, and the indolent or incapable, that it is chiefly desired. Those whose abilities do not warrant an expectation that they will succeed in the open professions, where they must encounter the competition of their contemporaries, and those whom indolence of temperament or physical infirmities unfit for active exertions, are placed in the Civil Service, where they may obtain an honourable livelihood with litde...
Página 3 - Government of the country could not be carried on without the aid of an efficient body of permanent officers, occupying a position duly subordinate to that of the Ministers who are directly responsible to the Crown and to Parliament, yet possessing sufficient independence, character, ability, and experience to be able to advise, assist, and to some extent, influence, those who are from time to time set over them.
Página 5 - There are, however, numerous honourable exceptions to these observations, and the trustworthiness of the entire body is unimpeached. They are much better than we have any right to expect from the system under which they are appointed and promoted.
Página 92 - The proposal to select candidates for the civil service of government by a competitive examination appears to me to be one of those great public improvements, the adoption of which would form an era in history.
Página 181 - to be by no means uncommon to have a fine fashionably dressed " young man introduced as the junior clerk ; on trial, he turns out fit " for nothing. The head of the department knows, from old experience,. " that a representation of this fact to higher quarters would merely " draw down ill-will upon himself; the first official duty with which " the young man is charged is, therefore, to take a month's leave of " absence that he may endeavour to learn to write.
Página 22 - To encourage industry and foster merit, by teaching all public servants to look forward to promotion according to their deserts, and to expect the highest prizes in the service if they can qualify themselves for them.
Página 411 - Each man's experience, interests, hopes and fears are limited to the special branch of the Service in which he is himself engaged. The effect naturally is to cramp the energies of the whole body, to encourage the growth of narrow views and departmental prejudices. . . . ' The authors of the report looked to introduce into the Service 'some elements of unity' by the measures already described.
Página 221 - I bent the whole force of my mind to, was the reduction of that corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality and of all disorder ; which loads us more than millions of debt, which takes away vigour from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.
Página 6 - The character of the young men admitted to the public service depends chiefly upon the discretion with which the heads of departments, and others who are entrusted with the distribution of patronage, exercise that privilege. In those cases in which the patronage of departments belongs to their chief for the time being, the appointments which it commonly falls to his lot to make are either those of junior clerks, to whom no very important duties are in the first instance to...