It has emerged that public servants are no longer observing work ethics.
According to the Chief of staff and head of Public Service Felix Koskei, the standards of adherence to working hours, dress code among others is very poor.
The Chief of staff was speaking during the opening of the 27th Annual National Human Resource Management Conference in Naivasha.
“Adherence to work working hours, dress code, official language, codes of conduct and norms and standards is extremely poor,” Koskei said.
He went ahead to say that one of the challenges affecting the public service is mental issues which have highly threatened productivity.
Others are “unfair labour practices, poor quality of customer service, lack of clear succession management in government institutions, maladministration in promotions, deployments, designations and staff development.”
“HR professionals must make effort to identify and mitigate risks that lead to such occurrences. I am aware you even have career trainees who attend every training, seminar or conference, even those that you have already undertaken,” he said.
The conference is however set to go for a week and it has brought together over 1000 Human Resource directors from public and private sectors.
Koskei urged the directors to practice fairness and diversity in their work places as well.
“When a people recognize the power, wealth and potential contained in their diversity, great things are realized. A nation divided on the basis of diversity is a nation weakened,” said the Public Service boss.
