DEPED: SERVICE EXCELLENCE THRU HUMAN RESOURCES

The Department of Education is now in the process of reexamining its organizational structure, at the same time improving its capacity to attract, train, and retain the best human resources.

With this in mind, the DepEd, through its Bureau of Human Resource and Organizational Development (BHROD), gathered around 1,000 human resource practitioners in a convention recently.

The convention was aimed at bringing together all DepEd HROD practitioners, and align initiatives and resources to strengthen the foundation of HR and OD in the Department.

This event also explored how to best benefit from new technologies, high impact HROD strategies, and new ways of working to create an agile, efficient, and digital organization able to address the changing needs of the Department, its management, employees, and other stakeholders.

The topics discussed include:

HROD in the Global and Asian Landscape;

• Emerging HROD Systems and Initiatives in the Philippines;

• HROD in DepEd: Challenges, Directions, Framework, Strategies, and Interventions; • Public Service Excellence through Quality Management System and Program to Institutionalize Meritocracy and Excellence in Human Resource Management (PRIME-HRM); • Cultivating a Mindset for Growth and Development; and

• Leadership Excellence in Public Service

The event also conducted parallel learning sessions on personnel services, learning and development (L&D), talent management system (TMS), and employee welfare and wellness.

Education chief Leonor Magtolis Briones mentioned that this event served as a venue to discuss the challenges that DepEd is facing, particularly in the aspect of HROD, and highlighted her high regard to commitment in facing and solving these challenges.

She said it is a challenge for them how to respond to all the expectations of citizens, and at the same time, keep themselves open to advice, to reports, to feedback, and to assessment from the different sectors of society.

Most important of all, she said the Department must instill in its staff an even stronger commitment to the Department’s goals, its thrust, as well as its objectives and support for the reforms that are now being initiated.

The author is Teacher

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III at Sulipan Elementary School