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2009-2010 Annual Report

Public Service Commission of Canada
300 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0M7
Canada

Information: 613-992-9562
Facsimile: 613-992-9352

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Public Service Commission of Canada, 2010

Table of Contents

• Letter to the Minister
• PSC Mission, Vision and Values Statement

Chapter 1

• Opinion of the Commission
  • Overall assessment
  • Areas of progress
  • Ensuring sustainability
  • Looking forward

Chapter 2

• A highly delegated staffing system
  • Employees under the Public Service Employment Act
  • Overall public service hiring and staffing activities
  • Hiring activity to the public service by geographic area
  • Executive Group
  • Official languages
  • Public Service Official Languages Exclusion Approval Order

Chapter 3

• Overall progress regarding merit and the guiding values
  • Overall assessment
  • Merit
  • Guiding values
  • Fairness
  • Transparency
  • Access
  • Representativeness

Chapter 4

• A non-partisan public service
  • Challenges to non-partisanship
  • Safeguarding the non-partisanship of the public service
  • Non-partisan in staffing
  • Political activities regime: Part 7 of the Public Service Employment Act
  • Relationship between the public service and the political sphere
  • Safeguarding non-partisanship in the 21^st century

Chapter 5

• Management of staffing in departments and agencies
  • Assessment methodology
  • Scope of assessment
  • Overall assessment of key success factors
  • Delegation of staffing to deputy heads
  • Imposing conditions on delegation
  • Planning for staffing and monitoring of results
  • Organizational human resources support systems
  • Organizational accountability for results
  • Top performers
  • Efficiency and time to staff
  • Potential for further progress
  • Collective staffing processes

Chapter 6

• Oversight
  • Audits
  • Studies
  • Oversight review and recommendations
  • Investigations into appointment processes
  • Investigations under specific authorities

Chapter 7

• Enabling departments and agencies
  • Refinements to the policy suite
  • Priority administration
  • Enabling infrastructure
  • Recruitment of post-secondary graduates
  • Recruitment of students for temporary employment
  • Recruitment statistics and volumes
  • PSC-led pools and inventories
  • Executive resourcing services
  • Assessment services and products
  • Assessment volumes
  • Tailored assessment tools and services
  • Assessment accommodations
  • Second language evaluation
  • Test security
  • E-testing and assessment innovations
  • Public Service Staffing Modernization Project

Appendices

• Appendix 1
  • Staffing Management Accountability Framework
  • Staffing Management Accountability Framework: Effectiveness and adherence to guiding values
• Appendix 2
  • Statistical tables
  • Table 36: Overall hiring and staffing activities to and within the public service by type and tenure
  • Table 37: Overall hiring and staffing activities to and within the public service by tenure and previous employment status
  • Table 38: Staffing activities by type and occupational category
  • Table 39: Staffing activities by type and geographic area
  • Table 40: Appointments to the public service to indeterminate and specified term positions greater than three months, by employment equity group and geographic area
  • Table 41: Staffing activities by type and first official language group
  • Table 42: Staffing activities by type, first official language group and language requirements of position
  • Table 43: Student hiring activities and appointments to the public service by recruitment program and geographic area
  • Table 44: Staffing activities by type and organization
  • Table 45: Public Service Employment Act population changes by organization
  • Table 46: Priority administration (public service total)
  • Table 47: Number and distribution of applicants to the Post-Secondary Recruitment campaign (fall 2009) by home province or territory
  • Table 48: Geographic and educational profile of Federal Student Work Experience Program applicants
  • Table 49: Percent distribution of applicants to external advertisements and Canadian population
  • Table 50: Applications and appointments for nationally advertised jobs by geographic area — Officer-level
  • Table 51: Applications and appointments for nationally advertised jobs by geographic area — Non-officer-level
• Appendix 3
  • Specific restrictions and conditions applied to organizations following results of Public Service Commission oversight activities (in effect as of March 31, 2010)
• Appendix 4
  • Audit and Studies Plan — 2011 and 2012
  • Summary of audits and studies underway or planned for release in 2011 and 2012
• Appendix 5
  • Review of Public Service Commission Oversight — Action Plan
• Appendix 6
  • Glossary

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Date Modified:

2010-10-05