KUALA LUMPUR: The Public Service Department (PSD) in its transformation initiative has managed to reduce its staff by 387 in the last three months, according to its director general Tan Sri Mohamad Zabidi Zainal.
The number representing 15 per cent of the department's workforce of more than 3,000 were involved in new postings to other departments and agencies, in the first phase of the PSD's transformation process.
"Their transfer does not mean that they were not needed by the PSD. It is because other agencies and departments need them more.
"This is a success that the PSD has never achieved before. The transferred officers would be the PSD's transformation ambassadors at their new workplace," he said when met by reporters after opening a Workshop, 'Leadership for Middle Managers' at the National Institute of Public Administration (Intan) here today.
On the one-day workshop, Mohamad Zabidi said it was in line with the call by Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin for civil servants to be daring in seeking strategic and creative solutions to challenges in their tasks and responsibility to the nation.
Meanwhile, Profesor Dave Ulrich from the University of Michigan Business School, who conducted the workshop said he was very impressed with the country's public service transformation framework.
"Socially, politically and economically the world is changing. And for the public or private sector to succeed they must transform," said the expert in leadership and organisational development.
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