ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the changes in the civil service to determine its ability to generate future leadership. In the 1950s and 1960s the civil service, resembling many of its counterparts in the developing countries, suffered from the concentration of power at the top and incompetence at the lower levels. In 1963 at the request of the Sa'udi government, the Ford Foundation sent Col. A. S. P. Shaw, then President of the Civil Service Commission in Pakistan, to assist in organizing the newly created Institute of Public Administration in Riyadh and to recommend changes in the administrative system. The Institute of Public Administration assumed a pivotal role in training civil servants and broadening the scope of government reorganization. In the 1950s the Bureau of Personnel and Retirement, a department within the Ministry of Finance, worked under no formal personnel regulations and merely kept files and records on civil servants.
