Context
Copying cutting-edge practices in hiring, specialisation and organisational structure from the Indian military will serve the Indian bureaucracy well.
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What are the national goals and strategy of India?
There are no poor people, only people in poor places. The war on poverty is won by raising the productivity of five physical places — states, cities, sectors, firms, and skills.
The strategy is to replace high employed poverty with high-paying jobs through urbanisation, formalisation, industrialisation, financialisation and human capital.
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What are the HR practices in armed forces that should be adopted by civil services?
Tenure:
The Agniveer revamp will reduce an average soldier’s age, ensure motivation for continuing in service, and gradually raise military capital expenditure.
This allows organisations to renew themselves without complications, court cases or a huge pool of promotable but not postable.
The government must hire all new civil servants for a fixed 10-year tenure. The rollover percentages should be decided by a hard-coded organisational structure.
Specialisation: In a democracy’s generalists are politicians. Civil servants are technocrats whose mandate is assisting in governance.
The ideal administrator is not the gifted layman who frequently moves from job to job within service and can take a practical view of any problem.
Young military recruits pick an area of expertise early. Our civil services must replicate this.
Structure: The “on-paper” performance management systems in civil services have collapsed. Only a few civil servants don’t get to the top positions through indiscriminate promotions.
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Conclusion
- The Indian Republic has greatly benefitted from civilian control of the military, but it’s time for the civil services to learn three cutting-edge HR practices from the military.
- Better HR practices in civil services are needed because wars are fought with weapons but won by people.
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