Open System in Service

We always say let the best person to do the jobs. Even in the budgeting system, we said manager managed. When it comes to sustainable development, we said Think globally but act locally. So, in the field of management, finance or environment, we all agreed that the best person closer to the root cause of the problems should be given the opportunity to solve the problems. No restriction should be imposed for allowing the best person to be assigned to solve the problems. However, excuse of no such post available to accommodate the best person is always mentioned. Hence, rigid in resources mobilisation becomes thumbling block for the exercise of right sizing and optimisation of resources.

This was happened when it comes to the discussion for organisational restructuring. Many post have been assigned with specific category code and thus allowing the best person which does not fall into that category to be assigned is near impossible. Specific category code is usually assigned based on qualification and professional. For example, engineers or town planners are put under J Category while accountant and valuer are under the W group.

I presume when it comes to management, knowledge and skill should take precedence rather than the qualification and category code. However, I am proven wrongof as the existing system is rather rigid. It is near impossible for one to cross over to other scheme without getting blessing from the top management or political master. To me, for local council to move forward, this restriction should be revisited again. It is time now for local authorities to practice open system, even open sourcing system.