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Human Resource Development And Productivity In The Civil Service
[AN APPRAISAL OF KOGI STATE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION]
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The systems interaction with the environment implies the concept of boundary, imputs and outputs.
Under
the second category where we seek to understand the factors responsible
for the maintenance and regulation of the system we find concepts as
stability, equilibrium and homeostasis connected with the issue of
regulation and maintenance, also are the concept of feedback, repair,
reproduction etc.
Finally, under the 3rd category are concepts
connected with dynamics and change, change which can be descriptive or
non-descriptive. Non-descriptive change can be brought about through
responses to attend environmental conditions. This brings into focus the
concept of adaptation, learning and growth.
Change can also be
descriptive involving the distinction between the notions of
description, dissolution and breakdown as well as the notion of
systematic crisis, stress as strain and overload and decay.
The
systems approach to the study of organization focuses on the system as a
whole, the environment of the system, the interdependent relationship
between parts of the system and the dependency for the system to strive
and survive by negotiating with its environment as Kontaz et al
(1980:23) puts it:
The advantage of approaching any area of energy
in any problem as a system is that at enables us to see the critical
variable and constraint and their interactions with one another, it
forces scholars and practitioners to be constantly aware that one single
element, phenomenon or problem should no the treated without regard to
its interacting consequences with other elements.
The major concept involved in the system theory can be summarized as follows:
1. A system can be perceived as a whole with it part and their independent relationship.
2. A system has its boundary and can be viewed in terms of its relationship with other systems.
3. A system has sub-systems and is also a part of a super-system.
4.
A system can be regarded as either open or closed. According to Kontz
et al, (1980) a system is regarded as open if it exchanges information,
energy and material with its environment as it happens with biological
or social systems.
It is regarded as closed if it does not have such interactions within the environment.
5.
A system interacts with the environment in terms of processes that
invites imput, conversion and output of energy, information and
material. A system tends to re-energize or modify itself through the
process of information, feedback from the environment.
6. In order
to survive, an open system moves to arm the entopic process by importing
more energy from its environment than expected and by strong energy it
can acquire negative entropy.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The Civil Service as the machinery of Government performs the unique role of governance and National development as such government everywhere in the world have come to terms with the need to train and re-train it’s human resource for them to be better equipped to maximize productivity levels and meet the challenges of governance and management.This work makes use of the system theory as the theoretical framework and data gathered from secondary sources. My chapter one began with the gene ... Continue reading---
