Civil Service Commission


            Civil Service Commission is a program that is usually found in every modern city. “We need to develop the new arts of social and economic engineering into a coherent pattern suited to the new mass economy” (1952); its purpose therefore is to help the city itself to prosper by seeing to its condition through integration of its smallest concerns to the people’s needs and other services such as health related programs. It has workers who have different assignments such implementing laws, hiring of government workers, provision of programs for retired personnel and other services whose purposes are to serve the people. Civil Service Commission actually first came to be in China during the dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) and then later on expanded to include all important positions there are during the Sung dynasty (960-1279) ( 1973). Its purpose was to give examinations to all males who have the ability to be of service to their dynasty.  The accumulation of Civil Service Commission towards the East was slow and took a lot of time. In fact, establishment of modern civil service is closely associated with the decline of feudalism and growth of national autocratic states. Historical movements that prompted the change were due to the agitation felt after the Civil wars and because the Civil Service of the Unites States was far behind in terms of competence. In 1871, the President was given authority by the Congress to appoint the Civil Service Commission which only lasted for a couple of years. The assassination of President  in 1881 gave way to the passage of Pendleton Act on 1883 declaring to bring back the Civil Service Commission. Later on, the Hatch Act 1940 forbade officeholders to hold campaign contributions for the purpose of separating civil service from politics. And then on 1993 there was a revision of the act which now allows civil service workers to campaign on their own time (2004). However there were also times when neutrality was practiced. It was in 1923 when the most striking recent demonstration of neutrality happened when the first labor government assumed power (1935).


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            Being a fast growing suburban community, it has been the City Manager’s concern as to how to manage it since a lot of revisions and projects are to be done in order to allow Townscape to keep pace with rising technological changes. However, for a lot of changes, the people are also concerned about the budget of such projects. People wanted to know where there community will be in the near future.


            Financial planning, funding, and financial control, not withstanding their different missions, functions, sizes and complexities of organizations (1986) should be observed when thinking of doing a project. Considering the amount that a community can produce for a big change is essential because any project can never be put into action when you lack the funds. However if the lack of funds is not a question, then proper implementation of policies and plans should be done. Think of any possible ways to have a lot of development within your sector especially if your are not yet overpopulated. That is an A plus. Even if the population is not yet too much, unemployment should be viewed as a future problem because eventually population will grow and if the sector has not provided numerous developments to sustain the number of people then unemployment enters. Therefore, you may provide numerous social services which may be flexible for expansion either publicly or privately. An example is the hollow state which is an approach to policy implementation that relies upon private or nonprofit organizations to deliver certain public goods (1993). Hollow state is an organization that suggests allowing the private non-profiting organizations within the community to participate in the provision of services or goods to the government. In this way, private sectors are helping the whole community to be prosperous.


            Education also must not be left behind. It is everybody’s concern to make most out of education. Constant change and improvement of education should be done in every place because it is constantly evolving. Almost everyday, we discover new things that are education oriented. There are changes both in knowledge and in circumstances that may result to constraints because it is in the sense that education is in constant process of invention ( 1998).  A fund must also be provided for this.


            If changes are to be done, it must be in equilibrium with the environmental changes so that the revision of the suburban community won’t be left behind. Also while we are at the topic of change, future problems must be put into consideration. Proper time frame and proper fund management should be observed.


 



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