We introduced managerial courses at PSTI to reduce stress of officers seeking additional qualifications – Bayo Philip

The need to ease the stress of workers in acquiring additional qualifications for the promotion of senior officers in Ondo State has necessitated the recent introduction of managerial courses at the state Public Service Training Institute(PSTI) at Ilara-Mokin in Ifedore Local Government Area of the state.

The state Head of Service, Mr Bayo Philip stated this while receiving members of the Ondo State House of Assembly Committee on Human Capital Development in his office in Akure, the state capital.

This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Sina Adeyeye, Director Media, office of the Head of Service, on Wednesday in Akure .

Philip, while noting that at a point in service, officers would require to acquire additional qualifications to be promoted, said it was discovered that most senior officers were going through a lot of stress pursuing those courses in higher institutions both within and outside the state and at exorbitant cost.

According to him, it is upon this realisation that the state government decided to make such courses available at PSTI to lessen the burden on the workers.

Said he: At a point in service, for officers to be promoted within the management bracket of Grade Levels 13 to 17, he or she must possess an additional qualification.

“At a point, all our senior officers were scattered all around looking for Master’s Degrees, looking for Post Graduate Diploma and that took its toll on the service. So it was resolved recently that managerial courses will be run at our PSTI and we can use it for preferment of our staff.”

This feat, according to the Head of Service, is in addition to other in-house training programmes that the facility is offering to other categories of the workforce in the state.

Speaking on series of reform programmes going on within the state Public Service, Mr Philip said his office has been spirited in driving them to enhance productivity.

He said his office was building on the extant reforms called the Ondo Service Improvement Programme(ODSIP), which focused on work process re-engineering, job reorientation and ethics, leadership and values generally.

Reacting, the Chairman of the committee, Hon. Oshati Olatunji, who described the appointment of Philip as the Head of Service by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa as worthwhile, said the visit by the committee was to familiarise with him with a view to charting a common course for the good of the workforce.

He said it is the duty of the committee to see to the welfare and productivity of workers in the state Public Service which necessitates a synergy between the committee and the office of the HoS.