Delay in renovation of HR management shall obstruct the reform

Operations at North Thang Long Industrial Park Customs Branch (under Hanoi Customs Department). Photo: N. Linh

The plan shall be quickly implemented in 2018 and in the coming times under specific roadmap.

Workload rises from 10-20% year by year

Pressures from internal urgent demand of the Customs sector set a requirement on renovation of human resource management. According to the General Department of Customs, the workload rises quickly from 10-20% year by year. It is estimated that by 2020, the import and export turnover shall rise by over 80%, the quantity of declarations shall be double to that of 2015. Meanwhile, Ministry of Politics’ Resolution stipulates that the human resource must fall by 10% by 2021. This requires the Customs sector to improve the capacity and quality of work performance of its staff.

Moreover, there is a need for higher human resource capacity in order to meet the speed of Customs modernization and the change of surrounding environment. At the same time, the requirements for administrative reform, maximum facilitation to the import and export activities in the spirit of Resolution 19/NQ-CP, Resolution 35/NQ-CP of the Government also impose pressure on the Customs sector for human resource.

Facing above requirements and pressures, besides continuing to boost the modernization and reform on procedures, methods, IT system, equipment and facilities, during the past time, the General Department has also carried out a plan to renovate the method of human resource management in order to improve the capacity and efficiency of work performance, integrity and law compliance of it staff. Accordingly, removing inadequacies in human resource organization such as lack of mechanism for human resource capacity assessment and restrictions on control of duty performance of human resource

Renovation upon the reality

Before the above reality, over the past time, the Customs sector had many activities to renovate human resource management. Orientation from 2013 is developing method first, then piloting it and multiplying it later. To this date, the General Department has developed grounds and basic methods of human resource management model according to working position. However, the implementation has just stopped at developing methods and piloting in a small scale and has not applied to the human resource organization (organization of human resource capacity assessment, training, arrangement, movement and transfer., etc)

Responding to the requirement of the reality, on 25th January 2018, General Department of Customs issued Decision No. 166/QD-TCHQ on plan to renovate some activities on capacity-based human resource management.

The targets for 2018 are completing the working position system, thereby clarifying responsibilities, and rights of working position; evaluating capacity of civil servants in charge of 6 main fields in six departments under the General Department of Customs and some key Customs departments, and step by step applying the personnel organization (training, arrangement, assignment, rotation).

The targets for 2019 are completing capacity assessment of civil servants in all fields of the sector, applying it in the assignment, rotation, arrangement and training in some fields and units; Initially managing the performance of civil servants in some departments under the General Department of Customs and Customs departments

The targets for 2020 are implementing synchronously the activities of capacity assessment, performance management and applications in human resources for the major professional areas of the sector

In order to disseminate the basic contents of the plan in 2018 and discuss the implementation method in the whole sector, recently, the General Department of Customs has held the first session of the General Department of Customs’s specialized group of development and assessment of human resource capacity

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According to the Deputy Director General of Customs Hoang Viet Cuong, the implementation of plan on renovation of capacity-based human resource management according to working position is in urgent need in the current context. If the implementation is not more methodological and active, it leads to risk of backward. Because all branches and levels are making progress in the renovation of human resources, the development of a master plan in the context of reviewing previous plans and setting targets for each year is required.