By Daniel Tyokua
The Federal Ministry of Works has unveiled a plan, tagged Performance management system designed to be monitoring the staff productivity.
At the launch in Abuja on Thursday, Permanent Secretary Of the Ministry, Yakubu Kofarmata, said the initiative would serve as a way of appraising the staff as stipulated in the Revised Public service Rule; 2024.
He said the step was in fulfilment of a directive of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF), Mrs. Esther Walson-Jack, recently.
Kofarmata stated that the weekly observance of the system is a drive towards reviewing, assessing and improving employees’ performance across all the areas.
According to him, “Today’s launch marks a critical step forward in our pursuit of excellence. The PMS will allow us to monitor progress, identify challenges and ensure we remain on track to meet our organisational, also national goals,” he stated.
He further emphasized that PMS will re-invigorate Civil Servants, who are successfully driving the Renewed Hope Agenda of His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR to the next level of development. Other benefits of PMS, as enumerated by Dr. Kofarmata, are improved productivity; employees’ engagement; better decision- making; data driven opportunities and many others.
Kofarmata promised that the development will be number one in the institutionalisation of the new management tool as a strategic driver of service delivery in the Federal Civil Service.
According to him, the system which is the second pillar of the Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan 2021 – 2025 (FCSSIP25), has come to stay in the Service and the Federal Ministry of Works shall not be left behind in its implementation.
He pointed out that the Ministry had developed its Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs); signed Performance Contracts at the management level, as well as cascaded it down to other staff; has its Dashboard ready with a total staff strength of 962 on board, out of which 822 have signed the PMS contract with 457 supervisors.
In his remarks , the Director, Human Resource Management, Mr. Aliyu Abdullahi, explained that the PMS Day Launch was meant to, majorly, draw attention on what PMS is all about.
He disclosed that the performance assessment of Civil Servants will now be done objectively as opposed to the use of the hitherto flawed and compromised Annual Performance Evaluation Report (APER) system.
