DavNor orients gov’t employees on PRIME HRM

Davao del Norte, November 20 (PIA) - - The provincial government here oriented yesterday the provincial government department heads and employees on Program to Institutionalize Meritocracy and Excellence on Human Resource Management (PRIME HRM).

Around 70 provincial government executives and staff participated on the PRIME HRM pre-assessment orientation held at Girl Scouts of the Philippines (GSP) Hall, provincial capitol compound, Tagum City.

Monica Salido, provincial human resource management officer, said that PRIME-HRM was one of the mandates of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) that integrates the Personnel Management Assessment and Assistance Program (PMAAP) and its accreditation program.

Salido added that the PRIME HRM aimed to continuously capacitate agencies in the performance of the human resource management, recognize best practices and serve as a venue for exchange and development expertise.

“This mechanism will cover the human resources management (HRM) services - recruitment, selection and placement; learning and development; performance management; and rewards and recognition,” she said.

Salido added that the PRIME HRM has three stages, which are Assess, Assist and Award; and four levels of maturity – transactional HRM, process-defined HRM, integrated HRM and strategic HRM.

“Since the program is still new, we will be evaluated on Level II for this year,” she said. The assessment for the provincial government of Davao del Norte will be done by the CSC from December 2 to 4.

Salido said that through the PRIME HRM, the provincial government will identify its best practices in HRM as well as the areas that need to be improved.

“Hopefully, we can pass the assessment because it will define also on who will take the final actions on appointments of the personnel,” she said.

She added that if the provincial government will fail the assessment, all appointments will be evaluated and acted upon, whether approved or disapproved, by the CSC.

“If this happens, all appointments will take time to be executed since the CSC has minimal manpower,” Salido added.

For this year, the provincial government passed the previous accreditation of the CSC, which gave the governor to approve or disapprove the appointment upon the review of the provincial HRM office. (PIA 11, Michael Uy)