ABOUT PSC

BACKGROUND OF THE COMMISSION

The Public Service Commission (PSC) was established in accordance with the Public Service Act No. 8 of 2002 and became operational on 7th January 2004 after the President made the appointments of the Chairman, Commissioners, Secretary and Deputy Secretaries of the Commission.

The creation of the PSC is one of the efforts to implement the Public Service Management and Employment Policy endorsed by Government in 1999. The aim is to bring about fundamental shift in the management of the Tanzania Public- Service, especially in the management of employees as Human Resource Management (HRM) replaces the existing "personnel administration concept".

The newly created PSC has replaced three Service Commissions, each one being responsible for a particular Service, namely:

• The Teachers' Service Commission;
• The Local Government Service Commission; and
• The Civil Service Commission.

In order to successfully fulfil its responsibilities the commission is divided into six Departments namely:

• The Civil Service Department (CSD);
• The Teachers' Service Department (TSD);
• The Local Government Service Department (LGSD);
• The Fire and Rescue and Immigration Service Department (FRISD);
• The Health Service Department (HSD); and
• Administration and General (A & G).

The establishment of the Commission is in line with the Public Service Management and employment Policy (1999), which focuses on the following challenges facing the Government in relation to its work force:

• To enhance productivity and improve quality of outputs;
• To ensure strict adherence by public service providers to laws, regulations, ethics and procedures
• To improve supervision of workers
• To ensure transparency, openness and fairness in the Public Service;
• To ensure promotions and recruitments are based on merit; and
• To put in place output oriented evaluation procedure