The British Civil Service: An Introductory EssayFabian Society, 1927 - 96 pages |
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Administrative Class affiliation appointed authority Board bureaucracy candidates certificate character Civil Servants Civil Service Associations Civil Service Commission Civil Service Commissioners Class I Examination Clerical Class Clerical Grade Clerks Committee competitive examination competitive interview Court Crown Department Departmental duties economic employed employer England English Civil Service Executive experience Fabian Society Head Henry Craik higher House of Commons Indian Civil Service inquiry inspectors Labour Lord Macdonnell Commission machinery ment methods Minister Ministry modern Nationalisation nature nomination open competition Order in Council organisation Parliament Permanent Secretary persons political position Post Office present principle professional promotion qualifications qualities questions re-organisation recommended recruited reform regulations Report responsibility Rules and Orders schools Second Division secure Sidney Webb Sir George Murray social Socialist society Staff Side Stanley Leathes strike thou shalt tion Treasury Typists Whitley Council women
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Page 20 - Were we required to characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word; the age with its whole undivided might forwards, teaches and practises the great art of adapting means to ends.
Page 23 - We believe that men who have been engaged, up to one or two and twenty, in studies which have no immediate connection with the business of any profession, and of which the effect is merely to open, to invigorate, and to enrich the mind, will generally be found, in the business of every profession, superior to men who have, at eighteen or nineteen, devoted themselves to the special studies of their calling.
Page 20 - Not the external and physical alone is now managed by machinery, but the internal and spiritual also. Here, too, nothing follows its spontaneous course, nothing is left to be accomplished by old, natural methods.
Page 21 - It seems to me that there never was a fact proved by a larger mass of evidence, or a more unvaried experience than this : that men who distinguish themselves in their youth above their contemporaries almost always keep, to the end of their lives, the start which they have gained.
Page 18 - I bent the whole force of my mind to, was the reduction of that corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder ; which loads us, more than millions of debt ; which takes away vigour from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution...
Page 20 - Nowhere, for example, is the deep, almost exclusive faith, we have in Mechanism, more visible than in the Politics of this time. Civil government does, by its nature, include much that is mechanical, and must be treated accordingly.
Page 91 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 84 - Council shall be to secure the greatest measure of co-operation between the State in its capacity as employer, and the general body of Civil Servants in matters affecting the Civil Service, with a view to increased efficiency in the public service combined with the well-being of those employed; to provide machinery for dealing with grievances, and generally to bring together the experience and different points of view of representatives of the administrative, clerical and manipulative Civil Service.
Page 58 - Thus the clerical class is recruited through an examination "framed with reference to the standard of development reached at the end of the intermediate stage of a secondary school course.
Page 20 - ... and indefinitely promoted. Contrive the fabric of law aright, and without farther effort on your part, that divine spirit of Freedom, which all hearts venerate and long for, will of herself come to inhabit it; and under her healing wings every noxious influence will wither, every good and salutary one more and more expand.