Financial Management

Management of Human Resources

Управление знаниями

Государственные и частные организации признают преимущества, которые могут быть получены от использования информации в записях и публикациях. На более широком уровне, страны признают значение информации, содержащейся в документации и архивов в качестве основы для определения и воспитания национальной идентичности и построения основанного на знаниях общества.

Записи обладают огромной властью в качестве основы для понимания обществом самого себя. Рассмотрим некоторые усилия общества, чтобы уничтожить архивы других обществах, например, в Сьерра-Леоне, Камбоджа, Косово, Восточном Тиморе и других регионов. Попытка уничтожить доказательства людьми себя как народ, является свидетельством силы записи, как часть культуры народа и личности.

Improved human resource management is central to good policy management in government. Yet in many countries it can be difficult to find personnel files that are complete. Although public sector reform programmes typically include a significant reduction in the size of the public service, governments are unable to find the basic information needed to accomplish this task, such as accurate staff numbers or details of their grades and location.

Moreover, as governments focus attention on improving the incentive structure of the civil service, the need for accurate and complete records becomes more critical. For example, performance-related human resource management – designed to reward the most competent staff and penalise poor performers – is dependent upon information about the present and past performance of individuals. This information is not accessible of the relevant records cannot be located.

Good record keeping is essential to clear and accountable financial management. Without accurate records of actual expenditures, the process of preparing budgets can become almost meaningless. Poor record keeping affects the entire accounting function, with the result that reporting and auditing may become virtually impossible. Corruption and fraud become difficult to detect. Debt management also suffers because records of borrowing may be divided among different government offices or may be incomplete. Virtually all approaches to improved financial management rely upon more efficient use of information, but these approaches cannot succeed if financial records are badly managed.