CSC achieves IPI accreditation for excellent people management

Boasting of another achievement, the Civil Service Commission (CSC) announced yesterday that it has recently achieved organization-wide Bronze Level accreditation to the global Investors in People (IIP) Standard for its excellent people management practices.

CSC officials, including regional directors from 16 regions, received the plaques of Bronze Level accreditation from IIP Philippines’ chief executive officer Gerry Plana and chair Janet Webster-Watson at the IIP 5th Concourse held in Taguig City last Nov. 27.

To achieve Bronze accreditation, the CSC said its offices underwent assessment to show that they adhere to 65 good people management practices or criteria based on the global IIP framework.

These criteria relate to the areas of organizational alignment, empowerment, learning and development, leadership, and continuous improvement.

The CSC’s latest achievement is a step higher from the Standard Level accreditation the CSC obtained in November 2014 for its central office and six regional offices (ROs), and in June 2015 for the remaining 10 ROs.

CSC chairman Alicia dela Rosa-Bala said this international accreditation shows that the CSC is on-track toward achieving its vision of becoming Asia’s leading center of excellence in strategic human resource (HR) and organization development (OD) by 2030.

Bala explained that the CSC holds the unique role as “people manager” or the central HR institution of the Philippine bureaucracy.

“This is why we make sure we take care of our own people first, because they are the ones implementing the HR programs that would benefit other civil servants,” she said.

The CSC took pride in being the first government agency in the country and in Southeast Asia to be IIP-accredited.