Executives and managers at the leading positions in the government
play a very important role in leading the administrative team in the right direction
and making sure that policies are implemented effectively. It’s increasingly
necessary for these senior-ranking civil servants to have strategic
and creative thinking as well as enthusiasm which may not be offered sufficiently
from the internal promotion and succession planning programs.
Many OECD nations try to deal with this critical task through secondment or
exchange programs by establishing a fixed-term mobility among government
officials, private and non-profit organizations’ executives. This paper first
presents the idea and designs the alternative, taking care not to radically affect
the basic personnel system that has been institutionalized in Taiwan for
decades. By adopting the theory of organizational change, this paper then offers
suggestions regarding how to make this new idea prevail the difficult
process of agenda-setting.