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Attahiru Jega, a university teacher and chairman of the INEC from August 2010, overhauled a sclerotic and corrupt election machinery, put in place a new and credible voting register, and retrained and deployed his staff to 120,000 polling stations in a vast country – all in six months.
Moreover, the staff had received threats clearly meant to stop them from reporting on specific, sensitive stories.
Hiring, promoting, and rewarding academic staff is increasingly based on “citation counts” – the number of times someone receives credit in peer-approved publications.
Two months ago, Bank President Paul Wolfowitz resigned amidst an extraordinary staff mutiny and governance debacle.
When Wolfowitz was finally pushed out after a bruising battle, Bank staff were beside themselves with joy.
By contrast, most IMF staff seem genuinely depressed by Rato’s departure.
And its staff possesses unparalleled expertise about individual countries, including insight into the difficult local politics that sometimes inhibit the reforms needed to ensure returns on investment.
The question is not how to create a chain of soup kitchens, but how to develop leadership that creates intrinsic incentives for the staff.
The BCHD has 70 staff and about 700 volunteers.
Even when children with disabilities do go to school, they are often excluded from learning, because the curriculum is not adapted to their needs, or staff members are not equipped to support them.
A fast food chain, on the other hand, is supposedly a "smart organization" because it makes the most of its relatively low-skilled staff through the alchemy of good management.
Academia proceeds almost exactly in reverse, as department heads and deans struggle to keep track of what the staff are doing.
So fickle are Trump’s loyalties that he reportedly “soured” on his third chief of staff before his pick had even started in the position.
He would undoubtedly boost organizational morale and motivate the staff to deliver maximum value and efficiency – to the benefit of all member states and their citizens.
A leader is only as good as the people who work for him, so organizations must make it a high priority to attract and retain good staff and rid themselves of those who lack professional integrity or competence.
Usually, in an emergency situation, there are no buildings in which to hold classes and no staff able to teach them.
The costs would include a one-time investment of about $13 million to purchase computers and software, $4 million to train 114,000 more staff across Bangladesh, and expenses for operations and maintenance.
Abe’s government may also review to increase the number of staff to which the assistants are entitled.
Emergencies are chaotic: staff and resources are stretched, the local population is very unlikely to be able to provide meaningful feedback, and pre-crisis baseline data are largely unavailable, so comparisons are complicated.
If only because very few French officers have served in NATO commands, the joint staff work learned in almost half-a-century of NATO experience will have to be re-learned.
At the very least, court staff should work with local groups to convene meetings about the trials, and the issues they raise, in communities across the country.
Top IMF staff face strict limits on their allowable business expenses (no $3,000 per night hotel rooms, despite reports in the press), and are generally underpaid relative to private-sector executives with similar skills and experience.
Clearly, the IMF’s existing culture and history will bias its selection and promotion of staff towards a certain type of person (for example, holders of PhDs from US universities).
After all, despite their grim financial performance, many of China’s SOEs have a lot going for them, including state-of-the-art equipment, first-rate technical staff, and competitive products.
For example, EULEX Kosovo is the largest EU mission to date, with some 2,000 staff, working in the police and judicial system and in mobile customs teams.
He was surprised to learn that the number of OSCE employees in Albania is equal to that of the entire staff of the OSCE's Vienna headquarters.
But Albania no longer needs the OSCE's staff to be scattered throughout the country to monitor every aspect of its political life.
The key reason is that wages in China began rising much faster than in other low-wage Asian economies, and companies within Asia’s production networks are finding it difficult to retain their most talented Chinese staff, particularly in the country’s booming coastal regions.
If Trump is to take full advantage of these trends to advance his reform agenda, he will need to give his cabinet a greater role in policy and improve coordination with and among White House staff.
More than a thousand words (an enormous footprint in a normally succinct document) were required to summarize three separate staff briefings on the subject.
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