A Reform For The Civil Service Classic Reprint

Excerpt from A Reform for the Civil Service The reform of the Civil Service, by which I mean those reforms which will place it in a permanent state of efficiency, is a question which must necessarily become more and more urgent. On the one hand our administrative obligations have increased at an unprecedented rate - witness, amongst others, the Ministries of Education, Health and Pensions-ou the other, our financial resources have diminished. If I employ one gardener at a salary of £3 per week, and receive from him work to the value of £22 105. Per week, my weekly loss is 103. But if I employ three gardeners on the same terms, my loss rises to £1 10s. If we admit, then, as we must do, that the Civil Service is not efficient, we must also admit that the wastage has become vastly more serious with the increase in the number of our Departments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Civil-Service Reform Movement In this country we know no rank or class distinction, and, in this light, civil-service reform, we shall admit, is! Democratic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Fighting the Spoilsmen: Reminiscences of the Civil Service Reform Movement Among the voluntary associations which have existed in this country for the propagation of various political and social movements there are two which have fairly won an honorable place in history: the Anti-Slavery Society which played an important part in the movement for the abolition of human bondage, and the National Civil Service Reform League which, with its constituent local and State associations, has done much to bring about the establishment of the competitive system in the civil service. The history of such organizations ought to be preserved, not only on account of the things they did, but as an illustration of the power of comparatively small groups of men, when properly organized and skillfully led, to accomplish by long and persistent efforts great public reforms. It shows what immense possibilities there are in voluntary association with self-sacrificing devotion to a cherished cause. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Civil Service Reform in the National Service, 1889-1891: Six Reports of the Special Investigating Committee of the National Civil Service Reform League Taking an average of the above (omitting numbers 9, 19, 20, and the number of applications made was something over seventeen hundred to each member. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Civil-Service Reform and Democracy It is a comfort to his surviving friends to know that, although he did not witness the full consummation of his endeavors, he lived at least long enough to see his cause rise from small beginnings to a measure of success promising complete triumph at no very distant day. The question is only what President and what political party will carry off the greatest honors of the achieve ment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Superannuation in the Civil Service: Report of a Special Committee of the National Civil Service Reform League, 1906 Nor is it true that the number of employees over 70 years of age is rapidly increasing. In 1893, the first year for which we have official statistics, there were just 2 per cent. Who were 70 years of age and over in the depart ments at Washington; there were 2 per cent. In 1900, per cent. In 1902 and 2 per cent. In 1904, at the end of eleven years. (4) By the latest report made in May, 1906, the percentage is about per cent. The average age in the service in Washington is years, and outside, it is years.. The average age, especially in the Washing ton departments, is much increased at present by the large number of veterans of the Civil War, who have had special preferences in appointment. Their age in 1904 was from 50 to 82 years.(5) Considerably more than half of those in the service over 65 years of age are veterans.(6) By far the greater part of those in the ser vice over 70 years of age entered without examina tion. Only per cent. Of those over 65 years of age entered through competitive examinations under civil service rules. (7) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Civil Service Administration Definition. Civil service administration has in the past been that branch of the public service which has jurisdiction over the selection of civilian employes required to carry on the public business. In most cases these employes have been selected by means of competetive tests. With the recent introduction of service records, the recent development of promotion examinations and the prosecution of efficiency studies, the sphere of the civil service administration has been gradually enlarged, and when the present day interest in salary classification, in service instruction and in centralized disciplinary control has been crystalized into legislation, civil service administration will include most of the activities which in private life are comprehended within the field of employment management. Free Appointment. (1) In the history of public administration, the era of the free uncontrolled appointment of subordinates preceded the era of civil service administration. When the public officer was free to appoint his own subordinates, he carried full responsibility for the acts and the character of the employes selected by him (2). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Necessity and Progress of Civil Service Reform: An Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the National Civil-Service Reform League, December 12, 1894 Imagine, then, a bank the stockholders of which, many in number, are divided into two factions - let us call them the Jones party and the Smith party - who quarrel about some question of business policy, as, for instance, whether the bank is to issue currency or not. The Jones party is in control, but the Smith men persuade over to their side a suflicient number of Jones men to give them - the Smith men - a majority at the next stockholders' meeting. Thus they succeed in getting the upper hand. They oust the old board of directors, and elect a new board consisting of Smith men. The new Smith board at once remove all the emeers, president, cashier, tellers, bookkeepers, and clerks down to the messenger boys the good and the bad alike - simply because they are Jones men, and fill their places forthwith with new per sons who are selected, not on the ground that they have in any way proved their fitness for the positions so filled, but simply because they are Smith men; and those of the Smith men who have shown the greatest zeal and skill in getting a majority of votes for the Smith party are held to have the strongest claims for salaried places in the bank. The new men struggle painfully with the duties novel to them until they acquire some experience, but even then it needs in many instances two men or more to do the work of one. In the course of events dissatisfaction spreads among the stockholders with the Smith management, partly shared by ambitious Smith men who thought themselves entitled to reward in the shape of places and salaries, but were left out in the cold. Now the time fora new stockholders' meeting arrives. After a hot fight the Jones party carries the day. Its ticket of directors being elected, 05 go the heads of the Smith president, the Smith cashier, the Smith tellers. The Smith book keepers and clerks, to be replaced by true-blue Jones men who have done the work of the campaign and are expected to do more of it when the next election comes. And so the career of the bank goes on withits periodical changes of party in power at longer or shorter intervals, and its corresponding clean sweeps of the bank service, with mismanagement and occa sional fraud and peculation as inevitable incidents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.