CSC holds 2-day summit in Cebu

CEBU, Philippines - Believing that human resource development is the key towards social reforms, the Civil Service Commission is hosting a two-day summit in Cebu starting yesterday.

The event is attended by over a thousand participants composed of human resource and organization development practitioners both in the government and private sectors.

“The country’s system of governance depends on the quality of our human capital, on the men and women who manage the day-to-day affairs of government,” said CSC chairman Francisco Duque.

He added that the increasingly complex and growing demands of the citizenry make it imperative for government agencies to check, review, and assess how well they perform their respective mandates.

“Organizational performance is directly related to employee performance. This is the reason why CSC invests in the capacity building and empowerment of State employees,” he added.

The HR Symposium 2013 dubbed as “Performance Management: Strategies and Breakthroughs”, aimed to serve as a venue to understand and appreciate the different performance management systems and share best practices of its implementation.

The two-day event is the first in the series of big scale learning sessions organized by CSC’s training and research arm, the Civil Service Institute, through the support of the Australian Agency for International Development.

Elaine Ward, AusAID acting minister counselor, said that the Australian government is pleased to be a partner of the Philippine government through CSC, in strengthening and empowering its pool of human resource and organizational development practitioners and experts.

In a press briefing, Ward said that Australia is helping the Philippines to enhance its performance management system, which will help strengthen the culture of excellence, performance and accountability in the civil service.

Through this, she added, Australia continues to make a real difference by working with the Philippines to achieve change and development.

Duque added that performance management also opens the opportunity to recognize and reward employees for exceptional efforts.

“These in turn motivate employees to want to do well at their job and feel that they are pitching in to the organization’s harvest,” Duque concluded. — (FREEMAN)