Excellent ‘People manager’: CSC gets international accreditation

CEBU, Philippines – The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has recently achieved organization-wide Bronze Level accreditation to the global Investors in People (IIP) Standard for its excellent people management practices.

CSC-7 director Karin Litz Zerna, including regional directors from all 16 regions, received the wall-mounted seal for the Bronze Level Accreditation from IIP Philippines’ chief executive officer Gerry Plana and chair Janet Webster-Watson at the IIP Fifth Concourse held November 27 in Taguig City.

CSC is the first government agency in the country and in Southeast Asia to be IIP-accredited.

IIP is a UK-based organization that provides advice and assessment services to help companies focus their people management on their business priorities.

CSC chairperson Alicia dela Rosa-Bala said this international accreditation shows that CSC is on track towards achieving its vision of becoming Asia’s leading center of excellence in strategic human resource and organization development by 2030.

“Subjecting ourselves to third-party audit is our way of assessing progress and we’re glad that we are able to meet such high standards set by IIP. This goes to show that we can walk our talk when it comes to excellent HR practice,” Bala said.

She added that CSC holds the unique role as “people manager” or the central HR institution of the Philippine bureaucracy.

“This is why we make sure we take care of our own people first, because they are the ones implementing the HR programs that would benefit other civil servants,” she said.

This latest achievement is a step higher from the Standard Level accreditation CSC obtained in November 2014 for its Central Office and six regional offices (ROs) and in June 2015 for the remaining 10 ROs.

To achieve Bronze accreditation, CSC offices underwent assessment to show adherence to 65 good people management practices or criteria based on the global IIP Framework. These criteria relate to the areas of organizational alignment, empowerment, learning and development, leadership, and continuous improvement. — Kristine B. Quintas/NSA (FREEMAN)