ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses briefly a fairly wide range of topics, with a view to illustrating the interest of the British Civil Service Department in applications which are thought likely to improve the quality of personnel management, or manpower systems management, in the Civil Service. The Civil Service is a dynamic manpower system, interacting with its environment. Discussion of what is meant by manpower planning in management of the British Civil Service, together with descriptions of the techniques and models in use have been published fairly widely. Manpower planning in the wider sense embraces all the discussed kinds of work. All the mentioned kinds of work can be viewed as means of measuring or assessing aspects of the workings of this system and as aids to management control engineering. Improvements in classification will improve the quality of the statistics in terms of accuracy and homogeneity and ability to reflect qualitative aspects in statistical descriptions of people and jobs.
