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Nhevia de Guzman
 Development and
Significance of the Civil
Service System

1 Evolution of the Philippine Civil

Service System

Nhevia de Guzman BPA-3B

2 The concept of bureaucracy and the need for a
permanent institution of public employee

PA6-1st Sem (2021) September 03, 2021

 Evolution of the Philippine
Civil Service System

1
-The Philippine Civil Service was established in
1900 by the Second Philippine Commission during
the American colonial rule.
 -American William Howard Taft

Nhevia de Guzman BPA-3B PA6-1st Sem (2021) September 03, 2021

 Evolution of the Philippine Civil Service System

1
The 1935 Philippine Constitution firmly established the
merit system as the basis for employment in
government.

Nhevia de Guzman BPA-3B PA6-1st Sem (2021) September 03, 2021

 Evolution of the Philippine Civil Service System

1
In 1959, Republic Act 2260, otherwise known as the
Civil Service Law, was enacted.

Nhevia de Guzman BPA-3B PA6-1st Sem (2021) September 03, 2021

 Evolution of the Philippine Civil Service System

1
In 1975, Presidential Decree No. 807 (The
Civil Service Decree of the Philippines)
redefined the role of the Commission as the
central personnel agency of government.

Nhevia de Guzman BPA-3B PA6-1st Sem (2021) September 03, 2021

 What Is Bureaucracy?

2
-A bureaucracy typically refers to an
organization that is complex with
multilayered systems and processes.

Nhevia de Guzman BPA-3B PA6-1st Sem (2021) September 03, 2021

 Bureaucracy

2
It may refer both to a body of non-elected
governing officials (bureaucrats) and to an
administrative policy-making group.

Nhevia de Guzman BPA-3B PA6-1st Sem (2021) September 03, 2021

 Bureaucracy

2
It is any organization composed of multiple
departments, each with policy- and decision-
making authority.

Nhevia de Guzman BPA-3B PA6-1st Sem (2021) September 03, 2021

 The need for a permanent institution of public
employee
-Organized Recruitment of applicants

Nhevia de Guzman BPA-3B PA6-1st Sem (2021) September 03, 2021

 Improved Employee Performance

Nhevia de Guzman BPA-3B PA6-1st Sem (2021) September 03, 2021

 Learning and Development

Nhevia de Guzman BPA-3B PA6-1st Sem (2021) September 03, 2021

“To live life, you need problems. If you get everything you
want the minute you want it, then what’s the point of
living?” –Jake the Dog
THE SPOIL
SYSTEM
AND
THE MERIT
SYSTEM
WHAT IS
SPOIL
SYSTEM?
ORIGIN OF SPOIL
SYSTEM
SPOIL SYSTEM IN
THE PHILIPINE
BUREAUCRACY
■Nepotism
■Patronage
■Political partisanship
■Graft and corruption
Merit principle

■ Appointments, promotions and other personnel actions should be made exclusively

on the basis of relative ability and job performance

■Competitive exams, objective test, rank ordered list

Merit system
■ personnel system in which comparative merit or achievement governs each individual’s
selection and progress in the service and in which the conditions and rewards of performance
contribute to competency and continuity of service

■Personnel actions are taken on the basis of the knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) of current
employees and job applicants rather than factors like personality or political affiliation.
■Employees are hired based on KSAs and paid based on value of qualifications
■Employees assessed, disciplined, and rewarded based upon their performance.
MERIT SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS

■Open access to jobs

■Competitively determined selection and promotion
■Removal and discipline for failure to perform in the job
than for any partisan political reason
■Political neutrality of civil servants both in partisan political
activities and in the performance of their work
MERIT SYSTEM IN
THE PHILIPPINES
Spoil System Merit System
■ It’s who you know not what you ■ It’s what you know not who you
know know
 H E L L O

Political Neutrality and

Brief History of Civil
Service Commission

DEOCAMPO, PRECIOUS JILLIAN

BPA-IIIB
PA6 FIRST SEMESTER A.Y 2021
SEPTEMBER 03, 2021
 WHAT IS POLITICAL?
- POLITICAL MEANS RELATING TO
THE GOVERNMENT OR THE PUBLIC
AFFAIRS

DEOCAMPO, PRECIOUS JILLIAN

BPA-IIIB
PA6 FIRST SEMESTER A.Y 2021
SEPTEMBER 03, 2021
 WHAT IS NEUTRALITY?
- THE STATE OF NOT SUPPORTING
OR HELPING EITHER SIDE IN A
CONFLICT OR DISAGREEMENT

DEOCAMPO, PRECIOUS JILLIAN

BPA-IIIB
PA6 FIRST SEMESTER A.Y 2021
SEPTEMBER 03, 2021
 WHAT IS POLITICAL
NETRALITY?
- "POLITICAL NEUTRALITY
- " IS A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
WHICH PROVIDES THAT PUBLIC SERVANTS SHOULD AVOID
ACTIVITIES LIKELY TO IMPAIR, OR SEEM TO IMPAIR, THEIR
POLITICAL IMPARTIALITY OR THE POLITICAL IMPARTIALITY OF
THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

DEOCAMPO, PRECIOUS JILLIAN

BPA-IIIB
PA6 FIRST SEMESTER A.Y 2021
SEPTEMBER 03, 2021
BRIEF HISTORY
OF CIVIL
SERVICE
COMMISSION DEOCAMPO, PRECIOUS JILLIA
BPA-IIIB
PA6 FIRST SEMESTER A.Y 2021
SEPTEMBER 03, 2021
 WHAT IS CIVIL
SERVICE?
- THE BODY OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WHO ARE EMPLOYED IN
CIVIL OCCUPATIONS THAT ARE NEITHER POLITICAL NO JUDICIAL. IN
MOST COUNTRIES THE TERM REFERS TO EMPLOYEES SELECTED AND
PROMOTED ON THE BASIS OF A MERIT AND SENIORITY SYSTEM, WHICH
MAY INCLUDE EXAMINATIONS.

DEOCAMPO, PRECIOUS JILLIAN

BPA-IIIB
PA6 FIRST SEMESTER A.Y 2021
SEPTEMBER 03, 2021
 WHAT IS
- AN INSTRUCTION,
COMMAND, OR DUTY
COMMISSION
GIVEN TO A PERSON OR ?
GROUP OF PEOPLE.

DEOCAMPO, PRECIOUS JILLIA

BPA-IIIB
PA6 FIRST SEMESTER A.Y 2021
SEPTEMBER 03, 2021
WHAT IS CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION?

- IS THE CENTRAL PERSONNEL AGENCY OF

THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE POLICIES, PLANS, AND PROGRAMS
CONCERNING ALL CIVIL SERVICE
EMPLOYEES.
DEOCAMPO, PRECIOUS JILLI
BPA-IIIB
PA6 FIRST SEMESTER A.Y 202
SEPTEMBER 03, 2021
HISTORY OF
CIVIL
SERVICE
HISTORY OF CIVIL SERVICE COMMISION
 HISTORY OF CIVIL SERVICE COMMISION

1900 1935 1959 1975

REPUBLIC ACT 2260, otherwise PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO.

known as the civil service law, 807 (THE CIVIL SERVICE
Civil Service System in the
was enacted. DECREE OF THE
Philippines was formally
established under Public Law THE 1935 PHILIPPINE PHILIPPINES) refined the role
no.5 ("AN ACT FOR THE CONTITUTION firmly of the commission as the
ESTABLISHMENT AND established the merit system as central personnel agency of
MAINTENANCE OF OUR the basis for employment un government.
EFFICIENT AND HONEST CIVIL government.
SERVICE IN THE PHILIPPINE
ISLAND") by the second
Philippine Commission
 1987

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 292 (THE 1987

ADMINISTRATIVE CODE)
 ALICIA DELA ROSA-
BALA
-IS CURRENTLY THE CHAIRPERSON
OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
(CSC), THE CENTRAL HUMAN
RESOURCE OF THE GOVERNMENT.

DEOCAMPO, PRECIOUS JILLIAN

BPA-IIIB

PA6 FIRST SEMESTER A.Y 2021

SEPTEMBER 03, 2021


DEOCAMPO, PRECIOUS JILLIAN
BPA-IIIB
PA6 FIRST SEMESTER A.Y 2021
SEPTEMBER 03, 2021
THE CSC AIMS TO
INTEGRATE
COMPETENCIES IN
HUMAN RESOURCE
SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES, NOT ONLY IN
RECRUITMENT BUT ALSO
IN TRAINING AND
EMPLOYEE
DEVELOPMENT.
 THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
PROMOTES COMPETENT AND
PRODUCTIVE SENIOR SERVANTS
FROM ONE GRADE TO ANOTHER. IT
CAN TRANSFER CIVIL SERVANTS
FROM ONE DEPARTMENT TO THE
OTHER. THE COMMISSION HAS
DISCIPLINARY POWERS, LIKE
SUSPENSION OR DISMISSAL OR
ERRING CIVIL SERVANTS.
DEOCAMPO, PRECIOUS JILLIAN
BPA-IIIB
PA6 FIRST SEMESTER A.Y 2021
SEPTEMBER 03, 2021
THANK YOU AND GODBLESS!