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Civil service II

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Term: 1st Term

Week: 2

Class: Senior Secondary School 2

Age: 16 years

Duration: 40 minutes of 2 periods each

Date:       

Subject:      Government

Topic:-       Civil service II

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to

  1. Discuss the factors that hinders the effectiveness of the civil service
  2. Explain how to control the civil service

 INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES: Identification, explanation, questions and answers, demonstration, videos from source

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS: Videos, loud speaker, textbook, pictures

INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES

PERIOD 1-2

PRESENTATION

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY

STUDENT’S ACTIVITY

STEP 1

INTRODUCTION

The teacher reviews the previous lesson on civil service

Students pay attention

STEP 2

EXPLANATION

He discusses the factors that hinders the effectiveness of the civil service

Students pay attention and participates

STEP 3

DEMONSTRATION

He also discusses how to control the civil service

Students pay attention and participate

STEP 4

NOTE TAKING

The teacher writes a summarized note on the board

The students copy the note in their books

 

NOTE

CIVIL SERVICE

Factors That Hinders Effectiveness of the Civil Service in Nigeria / Problems of Civil Service

  1. Low Incentives: The poor condition of service memorializes workers in addition to slow promotion policy. Civil servants must be encouraged by granting to due staff.
  2. Lukewarm Attitude: Civil servants are often lukewarm claiming that government work is not worth giving the best. This attitude can hinder the effectiveness of the civil service.
  3. Red Tapism (Bureaucracy): The civil service lays too much emphasis on protocols, especially on issues that demand urgent attention. This act tend to slow down decision-making and implementation process.
  4. Political interference: politicians are always involved in interfering with the planning and implementation of the policies of the government. It is difficult to be neutral because of the political powers to backing the politicians up. This also hinders the effectiveness of the civil service in Nigeria.
  5. Tribalism, Nepotism and Favoritism: These are the three major factors bedeviling the effectiveness of civil service in Nigeria as this leads to the appointments off unqualified personnel into the civil service. Here personnel’s are employed based on tribal similarities. Nepotism is the act of top civil servants granting jobs to relatives and friends who do not merit the positions. How can the civil service in Nigeria grow when employment are not granted based on merits. This is one factor that has crippled 90% of all ministries in Nigeria today.
  6. Political instability: Frequent military intervention affect policy-making and implementation.
  7. Over duplication of functions: Functions exercised in the civil service are over duplicated and this can result to redundancy and Idleness amongst civil servants.

 

Control of the Civil Service

  1. The commission controls recruitment, promotion and discipline of civil servants.
  2. Budgeting and salaries are controlled by the ministry of finance.
  3. Parliamentary control has the power to reject or accept appointments of top civil servants by the executive.
  4. Executive control has the power to appoint civil servants.
  5. Hierarchical structure and control must be obeyed and respected by every civil servant.
  6. Legal or judicial control deals with administrative corruption and efficient administration.

EVALUATION:    1. Discuss four factors that hinders the effectiveness of the civil service

  1. Highlight four control measures for the civil service

CLASSWORK: As in evaluation

CONCLUSION: The teacher commends the students positively