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Malaysian Civil Service : Problems And Challenges

The Malaysian civil service for so long has maintained the tradition of being politically neutral. However, maintaining impartiality throughout is relatively difficult especially when a ruling political party has been at the helm of political power for a very long time. In other words, it is not eas...

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Main Authors: Yaakob, Ahmad Faiz, Salleh, Asri, Jusoff, Kamaruzaman, Hussain, Mohammad Khairul Anwar
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA (Terengganu) 2012
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spelling my.uitm.ir.140802020-12-02T15:45:36Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14080/ Malaysian Civil Service : Problems And Challenges Yaakob, Ahmad Faiz Salleh, Asri Jusoff, Kamaruzaman Hussain, Mohammad Khairul Anwar The Malaysian civil service for so long has maintained the tradition of being politically neutral. However, maintaining impartiality throughout is relatively difficult especially when a ruling political party has been at the helm of political power for a very long time. In other words, it is not easy to break the close relationship the Malaysian politicians and the government’s senior officers have built as a result of the ruling political party’s uninterrupted years in power since the country’s independence in 1957. The objective of this paper is to analyze the capacity and the professionalism of the Malaysian civil service, particularly the Malaysian senior civil servants. The paper argues, among factors that have the inherent possibility and aptitude to compromise the capacity and professionalism of the top management are; (i) political executive dominance, (ii) ‘ethnicized civil service’ and (iii) new mechanism of public governance. Universiti Teknologi MARA (Terengganu) 2012 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14080/1/14080.pdf Yaakob, Ahmad Faiz and Salleh, Asri and Jusoff, Kamaruzaman and Hussain, Mohammad Khairul Anwar (2012) Malaysian Civil Service : Problems And Challenges. UiTM Terengganu E-Academia Journal, 1 (1). pp. 132-146. ISSN 2289-6589 https://journale-academiauitmt.uitm.edu.my/
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description The Malaysian civil service for so long has maintained the tradition of being politically neutral. However, maintaining impartiality throughout is relatively difficult especially when a ruling political party has been at the helm of political power for a very long time. In other words, it is not easy to break the close relationship the Malaysian politicians and the government’s senior officers have built as a result of the ruling political party’s uninterrupted years in power since the country’s independence in 1957. The objective of this paper is to analyze the capacity and the professionalism of the Malaysian civil service, particularly the Malaysian senior civil servants. The paper argues, among factors that have the inherent possibility and aptitude to compromise the capacity and professionalism of the top management are; (i) political executive dominance, (ii) ‘ethnicized civil service’ and (iii) new mechanism of public governance.
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author Yaakob, Ahmad Faiz
Salleh, Asri
Jusoff, Kamaruzaman
Hussain, Mohammad Khairul Anwar
spellingShingle Yaakob, Ahmad Faiz
Salleh, Asri
Jusoff, Kamaruzaman
Hussain, Mohammad Khairul Anwar
Malaysian Civil Service : Problems And Challenges
author_facet Yaakob, Ahmad Faiz
Salleh, Asri
Jusoff, Kamaruzaman
Hussain, Mohammad Khairul Anwar
author_sort Yaakob, Ahmad Faiz
title Malaysian Civil Service : Problems And Challenges
title_short Malaysian Civil Service : Problems And Challenges
title_full Malaysian Civil Service : Problems And Challenges
title_fullStr Malaysian Civil Service : Problems And Challenges
title_full_unstemmed Malaysian Civil Service : Problems And Challenges
title_sort malaysian civil service : problems and challenges
publisher Universiti Teknologi MARA (Terengganu)
publishDate 2012
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14080/1/14080.pdf
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