The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Dr Marcus Ogunbiyi, has tasked the Directors and Heads of Units in his Ministry to pay maximum attention and take full interest in the new Performance Management System (PMS) policy introduced by the office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation.
Dr Ogunbiyi made this remark in his opening address for an in-house sensitisation workshop on Performance Management System organised for Directors and Heads of Units of the Ministry yesterday.
He explained that the workshop was organised as part of efforts of the Ministry to operationalise the PMS as part of the Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan 2021-2025 (FCSSIP2), adding that it was designed to introduce participants to its operations.
“PMS is a real thing now in the Federal Civil Service. It’s a policy that will be implemented in different stages. Directors, especially must understand it well because they are critical in its effective implementation in their MDA” he said.
Emphasising on the need for Directors to pay serious attention to the PMS, Ogunbiyi said that, himself as a driver of the new policy when he was at Head of Service, had to show extra commitment to have a full grasp of it.
“I beg you to pay attention, please pay attention and be interested. Let us all be interested. PMS is a real thing now in the Federal Civil Service” he remarked.
The new PMS policy is all about tracking performance of employees in a consistent and measurable manner. It was introduced to replace the old annual performance evaluation report system (APERS), being used for years in evaluating employees for promotion.
In her presentation , Mrs Bosede Olaniyi, Director Planning Resarch and Statistics in the Head of Service Office, stated that the objective of the workshop was to provide update on the new whole government approach to Performance Management.
On the PMS she explained “what gets measured, gets done, what gets measured, gets improved. It’s a measurement based on target set”.
