It is heard a lot at the public and private level that you have to be efficient. Efficiency is indeed a general and necessary pattern of utmost importance. In the case of public administration, which works with resources from the people, the issue takes on exceptional importance. Because? Because efficiency means achieving results based on rational costs. Efficiency maximizes results with the least possible investment, but without sacrificing product or service quality. So, it is not a simple question. In Ecuador, efficiency became a constitutional principle in 1998 and was ratified in 2008. In Brazil, it was constitutionalized by the reform of 2008. On the way to efficiency, another principle plays a major role: specialty. Specialty is the enemy of improvisation. This is a real “command” in the world of public administration. Do large global corporations have makeshift managers? Not. Are they effective? Of course. For these reasons, it is a big mistake to appoint improvised officials for the subject in question, and even worse to change those same improvised ones for other areas that they do not manage either, as if specialization is something like moving tokens. This applies to ministers of state in all governments.
The persons mentioned in the alleged corruption in public companies do not have registered investments in their name nor are they shareholders
The principle of specialization is included in public companies: Article 10 of their law requires that for a manager it is necessary to prove “knowledge and experience related to the activity of the company”. The reason is obvious. The same logic must apply to the chairman of the board of directors: he cannot be a neophyte. In this case, the matter is more serious, because the administrative council is the one that guides the progress of the institution, approves investment plans, and “directs” such entities. The manager is the executor of the board’s policy. For this reason, it is a serious legal error to determine that a citizen presides over the boards of directors of all public companies with an executive function, since it is almost impossible for a person to dominate all the affairs of the competence of such companies.
Aguiar, a low-profile manager who is leaving Petroecuador, after six months of avoiding criticism and scandal
(…) in order to be a manager, it is necessary to show “knowledge and experience related to the company’s activity”.
Public companies are precisely the true reflection of the application of the principle of specialization that leads to efficiency. When there is a high-impact service or activity that particularly requires agility and effective responses, specialized institutions can be created. But this specialization must be guided by professional criteria, because it is useless to create a specialized institution managed by an improvised person or with personnel who should be specialized but are not (friendship must not prevail in public administration). Just as it does not serve the society to inflate the personnel of these entities, bringing them to budget despair, and thus in practice killing the noble idea of specialization of the public service.
The newly elected mayor of Guayaquil is on the right track: he will analyze each foundation and decide on its future based on that, thus banishing the easy path of demagoguery. Correct decision. (OR)
Source: Eluniverso
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