Focus On Your Core Businesses Department Heads Told

Dato Awang Haji Hazair

Bandar Seri Begawan - It is the objective of the civil service to provide more efficient, effective, and productive ethical services by prioritizing measures that could reduce cost and avoid wastage in implementing government projects.

Dato Awang Haji Hazair the Permanent Secretary at the Prime Minister's Office said that with the application of such steps the distribution and utilisation of resources of an organisation could be implemented with more competence and justifiable stability.

He was speaking at the launch of the alignment symposium in Civil Services yesterday.

He added that efforts in conducting a symposium such as this was in line with the titah of His Majesty the Sultan of Brunei on his 57th birthday in July in which the monarch stressed that all ministries and government departments should give serious attention on alignment programme.

Dato Haji Hazair went on to say that alignment programme serves to provide heads of department and management to interact, cooperate and nurture high values such as transparency and accountability apart from providing every ministries with the opportunity to apprehend about each other's strategic programmes.

He added that each department should focus attention at all times on their core business. To achieve good management, he elaborated each department should evaluate the vision, mission, objective and role of its purpose. By observing such measures, duplications in areas of authorisation and work with other ministries could be avoided.

Permanent Secretaries, Deputy Permanent Secretaries, Directors, Assistant Directors, Heads of Departments and Deputy Heads of Departmentd are attending the two-day symposium.

The symposium is to discern and share information on strategic planning of ministries to further increase strategic alliance among ministries.

The Management Service Department and the Civil Service Institute is conducting the symposium at the Ministry of Industry and Primary Resource in Berakas. -- Courtesy of Radio Television Brunei 

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