Using training to promote civil service reform: a Tanzanian local government case study
✍ Scribed by Willy McCourt; Nazar Sola
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 130 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-2075
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✦ Synopsis
Since 1993, Tanzania has been pursuing a programme of civil service reform which has emphasized job reduction. In local government the importance of reform and the lack of previous training for the manpower management ocers (MMOs) responsible for job reduction are an argument for training, while the complex institutional arrangements of local government and the dicult circumstances in which the MMOs work are a potential constraint on its eectiveness. A programme of training for the MMOs and its theoretical underpinnings in terms of transfer of learning are outlined. Discussion of the programme's eectiveness leads to a discussion of the limited eectiveness of even well-designed training in isolation, and of the complementary organizational and institutional development interventions which are desirable in order to increase its eectiveness.