The scope of personnel administration in local government

Abstract

The object of this paper is to ask why we need a system of personnel administration for locally employed staff, how badly we want it, and what objectives we hope to achieve thereby. I do not think you can answer these questions, however, without looking into the nature of local government itself, as we have it here in Africa in 1967. The one feature common to African countries in general is that they axe in a period of rapid social change: the old philosophies, inherited from one's ancestors or imported from outside, are all subject to question, and nothing can be accepted without testing.