tailieunhanh - Ebook The machinery of government structure and functions of government: Part 2

(BQ) Part 2 book "The machinery of government structure and functions of government" has contents: Creating government departments & public entities, the collective bargaining process, information management, issues of discipline and termination of service. | CHAPTER 6 Creating Government Departments and Public Entities 56 6 Chapter Chapter 6 Creating Government Departments and Public Entities In a democratic system, people vote in a government and, in return, the government has to prioritise on improving the living conditions of the people that voted it in. This tends to be an enormous and highly challenging responsibility and in order to carry it out, the Government uses a wide array of bodies and structures such as departments and national public entities. In this chapter we take a close look at these bodies and structures in order to explain how they are formed and how they differ from each other. GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS As we have just pointed out, departments, at both the national and provincial spheres play an important role in the execution of government functions. Departments at the national sphere of government are usually headed by Cabinet Ministers while those at the provincial sphere are headed by MECs. The final decision on the establishment or abolition of any department or organisational component in government lies with the President. However, because of the constitutional implications of such an undertaking he needs support from other role players. In the case of government departments and organisational components in the national sphere, he has to work together with the Minister for Public Service and Administration while in the provincial sphere he has to work together with the Premier of the respective province. When can a new department be formed? If a new portfolio for which the President or a Premier, in terms of the Constitution, has appointed a Minister or a Member of the Executive Council (MEC) requires the establishment of a new department; After the functions of an existing department have been reviewed, it could be decided that where necessary, that the department be split into to departments; After the review of the functions of two or more existing departments, these .