Earlier today our Deputy Finance Minister admitted that despite the increase in the number of registered contractors, their works were still found to be not satisfactory.
Yet, just a couple of days ago, our PAC concluded that it found only 'bad management' and not embezzlement/misappropriation per se (read abuse of power and authority) in the hitherto long delayed Rawang-Ipoh double tracking rail project.
Also, not too long ago our Auditor-General's reports unmasked the prevalence of relative incompetences compounded by sheer indifferences in many government ministries and departments. And, haiyoo..., I am reminded too of a recently-resigned top civil servant who has no qualms about insisting that a life recently lost was but a "small issue".
It is dismaying and equally shocking to say the least: Why our bad managers (may be 'baddy'-managers really?) have been so ubiquitous in the civil service, quasi-government organizations and even the GLC's and public companies for years now!
The darndest thing was (and it looks like it is continuing to be so, is...) that they all got away with impunity upon retirements, transfers and resignations - never mind the billions of ringgit of
taxpayers' money lost or, painfully, guaranteed to be incurred sooner rather than later!
Laughable too was and still is that some of these 'baddy' managers subsequently re-emerged to occupy even higher and strategically more critical positions in the managerial hierarchies in our many you-know-what entities/corporations.
Sad, so very very sad!
It is now so obviously - if not definitively - a deeply-entrenched Malaysian characteristic to have limitless tolerance for utter management nim-com-pooks and perpetually keeping up-high misguidedly-chosen leaders (of non-publicized or, if you prefer, officially "covered up" ill-reputes).
Maybe, and I hope it is not wishful thinking on my part, that we all must now for once persist in a stance that is so very un-Malaysian towards all potential future 'bad managers'.
What gives?
Journalists and reporters of both mainstream and digital media must henceforth dig out and up and then ensure all pertinent background information concerning academic and professional qualifications as well as the latest social standings of newly appointed and elected leaders and managers be published and given the widest possible circulation in civil society when they (the leaders and managers) assume their new postings or positions.
If these are followed up diligently and made to rule as an integral part of editorial policies, then I am sure a lot of these appointee-leaders/managers will shy away from being 'bad managers' lest they be ostracized by their old classmates or stigmatized by their collegues or even shunned by their relatives - or even suffer all of the foregoings!
A man does not live by himself, you know! Peer- and social-groups' pressures can
be very formidable and, yes, inexpensive leh to and for us the peeved taxpayers!
May be and only may be we will then have fewer bad (if not 'baddy'-) managers in
the future!
I am keeping my fingers crossed. Will you too?
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