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Completed |
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Cost : |
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$ 2,970 |
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Source of Fund : |
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European Union (EU) |
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Scope : |
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The responsibilities that were entrusted to the subject-matter expert and OMSAR focused on identifying a small number of job families from categories 3 and 4 in the Lebanese civil service grading system; developing, on the basis of existing job descriptions and identified key tasks associated with each job family, a profile for each job family; as well as recommending the most appropriate testing system for each of the identified job families.
Based on the work of the expert, a local committee was formed that produced a detailed report in which it discussed the current state of the testing system with the problems and difficulties it encounters. The work of the committee stressed on the basic principles which should be included in any modern testing system such as reliability and validity, the division of jobs into families and using several testing techniques etc…, and specified the articles that should be amended or added to the current Testing System (Decision no. 324 date 29/3/97). |
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Traditionally, the vast majority of public sector jobs have been filled by a cadre of generalist. Internationally, public administrations have been moving away from this generalist model because of their need to employ more technical specialists from all areas of business and technology.
The current testing system in Lebanon was designed to accommodate the traditional public sector model, and hence relies largely on a single essay-style written examination with a strong academic orientation. A recent move by the Civil Service Council (CSC) to cluster jobs into groups indicates that the CSC is already moving into the direction of employing more technical specialists into the jobs.
In light of the above, the CSC, and in a step to modernize the current testing system, sent a letter to the Minister of State for Administrative Reform stressing on the importance of developing and modernizing its testing system. |