Hong Kong lawmakers have urged the government to hire more disabled workers and impose key performance indicators to ensure the target is met after authorities revealed such employees made up 1.5 per cent of civil servants. The Labour and Welfare Bureau revealed in a Legislative Council panel meeting on Monday that 2,513 serving civil servants…
Be it performance pledges or key performance indicators (KPIs), successive governments have sought to improve governance via different means over the years. While these are positive steps to enhance transparency and accountability, the public is not necessarily best-served by merely adhering to numbers and indicators. Just as important is to foster a culture of going…
Hong Kong’s leader has taken the rare step of singling out the culture bureau for failing to meet goals in his latest policy address, calling on the minister to complete a development blueprint “as early as possible” and saying he would step in to monitor the progress. Wednesday’s policy address highlighted six key performance indicators,…