Government Services You are the newly appointed deputy minister of a mance, and by that terminating regional directors, provincial government department. There are 6,000 would take years. These regional directors are all employees in the department, grouped into a cor- well paid, and unlikely to leave on their own. The porate office plus six regions. Each region has story circulating is that they do not need to change a regional director. The corporate office has 400 because you will soon leave, just like your predeemployees who provide policy development and cessors. centralized services. You have a problem. You have promised the Each region is an autonomous unit run by a minister and the premier that you will standardize powerful regional director. The power is in terms program delivery, but the regional directors who of certain political and community support. The must do it for you will not co-operate. You have minister and his cabinet colleagues want these one year, or be terminated. As an "order-inregional empires reduced in power and brought council" appointee, the minister can terminate you because the regions have been delivering programs on short notice. However, you cannot terminate according to the regional directors' wishes, rather the regional directors in the same way as they are than as legislated. When you explain to the regional directors are at a loss for a solution. Responsibility accountwhat you want done in the way of program stan- ing does not seem to work. dardization, they all agree, but nothing changes. You cannot terminate these regional directors Required With the case approach, put forth alterbecause they have many years of service with natives, evaluate their likelihood of success, select performance evaluated at excellent for all recent the most approp years. The process of documenting poor perfor- mentation plan. Government Services You are the newly appointed deputy minister of a mance, and by that terminating regional directors, provincial government department. There are 6,000 would take years. These regional directors are all employees in the department, grouped into a cor- well paid, and unlikely to leave on their own. The porate office plus six regions. Each region has story circulating is that they do not need to change a regional director. The corporate office has 400 because you will soon leave, just like your predeemployees who provide policy development and cessors. centralized services. You have a problem. You have promised the Each region is an autonomous unit run by a minister and the premier that you will standardize powerful regional director. The power is in terms program delivery, but the regional directors who of certain political and community support. The must do it for you will not co-operate. You have minister and his cabinet colleagues want these one year, or be terminated. As an "order-inregional empires reduced in power and brought council" appointee, the minister can terminate you because the regions have been delivering programs on short notice. However, you cannot terminate according to the regional directors' wishes, rather the regional directors in the same way as they are than as legislated. When you explain to the regional directors are at a loss for a solution. Responsibility accountwhat you want done in the way of program stan- ing does not seem to work. dardization, they all agree, but nothing changes. You cannot terminate these regional directors Required With the case approach, put forth alterbecause they have many years of service with natives, evaluate their likelihood of success, select performance evaluated at excellent for all recent the most approp years. The process of documenting poor perfor- mentation plan
