Abstract:
The quality of human resources is critical to the development of any
country. To enhance sustainable development and poverty reduction,
governments need human capacities, especially in the public sector, to
transform their commitments on these issues into results. In view of this,
in 2015, the government of Ghana through the Public Services
Commission developed a new human resources management policy for
the public sector. The principal idea is that the new policy will lead to
the transformation of the Public Service into an ethical, responsive, and
citizen-oriented service that will provide, and continue to provide into
the future high quality and timely services to Ghanaians. This paper
examines the policy with the view of understanding whether it will
transform a sector that has suffered considerable neglect since
independence from the perspective of organisational learning. Will the
new policy lead to fundamental shift in HRM in the public sector? Has it
unearthed the fundamental issues underpinning the effective
management of human resources in the sector? And has it proposed
capable solutions to these issues?