Cabinet will soon receive the results of a consulting firm’s analysis of government’s human resources, but public officers who received the report in April won’t yet say what the consultants recommended.
Last August, the Deputy Governor’s Office entered into a $300,000 contract with the consulting firm KPMG to perform a “job analysis” of the public service.
The internationally known consulting firm was charged with assessing government’s human resource needs and current job allocations to identify potential areas to improve the public service.
To that end, KMPG consultants and representatives of government’s Department of Human Resources conducted interviews, held workshops and surveyed public officers about their impressions of government’s effectiveness.
The consultants also were tasked with developing updated “role profiles” for 3,054 public officers’ positions, detailing potential redundancies and producing recommendations to improve the service’s effectiveness.
The report was handed in to government on schedule on April 30.
According to a press release issued Tuesday, the HR Department’s “Job Analysis Implementation Team” reviewed the consultants’ recommendations and will make “additional recommendations for service-wide improvements to increase productivity and efficiency within the public service.”
But the release did not describe what KMPG or the implementation team recommended.
See the Aug. 23, 2012 edition for full coverage.
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