You’re assuming there’s something there to measure in the first place.
CTV- Government rejects call to measure productivity across public service
The federal government is rejecting a call from a working group to measure productivity across Canada’s public sector, arguing that doing so would not “readily align” with its priorities.
I am surprised the bureaucrats of the Administrative branch of the Kanadian government didn’t jump all over this.
Different departments would need their own unique standards. Each department would need its own monitors to review and report on how things are going. This would create another huge bureaucracy growing the government even larger.
Someone wasn’t thinking this through. But then again, when has a bureaucrat exhibited the ability to think? That is, even when it’s to his own advantage?
There is an old saying…..”what gets measured gets done”. THAT is the reason why the public sector has no measures.
But, but, but … at least they’re TRYING. To do their jobs which have no measurable standards to begin with.
Kenji,
Which jobs are they trying to do? Their gubmint job or the job they’re working on the side from home?
If it was the US, you could easily measure their productivity, you just analyze how much SNAP etc. benefits they’re collecting.
Translation: “The priorities of the Canuckistan Federal Guberment is not to make effective use of taxpayer dollars and demand accountability from our intentionally oversized bureaucracy. Rather, it is to rob blind all of you plebs and continue to plot your destruction!”
L – Threatening to pay them, what they are worth. That is the implied threat of performance metrics. When agriculture was the basis for survival. The idea that those who did’t work did’t eat was common sense. It was even part of the hunting culture reflected in the Old Testament book of Proverbs. “The slothful man roasted not that, which he took in hunting. But the substance of a diligent man is precious.”
A civil servant is both civil and serves the people. Paying those, who do otherwise isn’t wise !
Wait a minute..
The bureaus already claim to measure the productivity of the minions..They pay “Performance Bonuses” every year.
So?
Are they lying now?
Or have they been lying all along?
Or is “Productivity” a thing they cannot measure?
And that begs the question..What “performance” are they rewarding,annually.?
Their lying performance. But you make a good observation, John.
Just this morning I was informed “public servants were at their breaking point”. How are we allowing this????
God bless her – I know someone near and dear to my heart who works in the public service, If you were to measure her and her coworker’s work, it’s quite possible you could disrupt spacetime.
Well it is long past time when public “servants” and politicians learned the difference between SERVING the public and SERVICING the public.
Public servants /sarc are by definition not productive. They are parasites who feed on the productivity of others, and most of this useless lot of sub humans are counter productive. The best thing that could happen to Canada is a “crat cull” numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
KPI ?
DILLIGAF ?
The Government was very quick to nip that idea in the bud; amazing.
Those who can’t do, govern.