ALGEMENE BESTUURSDIENST ABD the Dutch SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICESES

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ALGEMENE BESTUURSDIENST (ABD)the Dutch SENIOR
EXECUTIVE SERVICE(SES)
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ALGEMENE BESTUURSDIENST(ABD) AND MANAGEMENT
DEVELOPMENT(MD)The ABD consists out of all
senior executive managers with complete final
responsibilities for policy, people and
resources.MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT(MD)Structural
investment in quality management across
boarders, future orientedPrincipal tasks ABD
Recruitment, selection development of the senior
civil service of central government. Unity MD at
all levels.
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PHASE I PIONEERING

• ABD350 executives in scales 17,18 and 19
• All Ministries and high offices of state
• Goals mobility individual development inter
  ministerial synergy
• Development instruments supply offer
  development

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SECOND PHASE GROWTH

• ABD800 leading executives scale 15-19
• Co-operation with Agencies, Municipalities,
  Provinces, EU
• Top management group
• ABD-candidate programme
• ABD-interim MDflexibilisation Central
  Government
• Extension Development supply programme

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Third phase ABD strategic Management Development

• STRATEGIC MD
• ABD-assessment development organisations
  managers
• Top management group (TMG) in service Ministry
  BZK
• Management development lines from trainee to
  TMG
• Diversity gender, bi-cultural and aging
  (silvering)
• Co-operation Management Development
  Central-decentralized
• Increasing fishing grounds placing
  possibilities
• Co-operation politics-civil service

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INSTRUMENTS BUREAU ABD

• RECRUITMENT SELECTION
• Appointments Top Management Group
• Guidance processes around vacancies
• EU placements
• ABD interim services
• Covenants

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INSTRUMENTS BUREAU ABD

• DEVELOPMENT
• Career guidance
• Career coaching
• inter-consultation among colleagues (ICC)
• Formation advice
• ABD candidacy programme

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INSTRUMENTS BUREAU ABD

• PROVISIONS AT CENTRAL GOVERNMENT LEVEL
• TMG employer
• ABD-ASSESSMENT
• Professionalization Management Development
  within Ministries and on central level.

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INSTRUMENTS BUREAU ABD

• CO-OPERATION
• Politics civil service interaction
• ABD-sessions
• Publications

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FIELDS OF TENSION AND CONCERN MD

• Investing in quality ànd
  shrinking the civil service
• Developing the organisation ànd development
  individual
• Ministerial or local interest ànd General
  concern interest
• Open system ànd
  succession planning
• Power of pushing through ànd autonomous
  self government
• Mobility of Talent ànd
  sustaining experience
• More women ànd
  keeping perspectives men
• co-operating with politics without
  political appointments

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Legal position Topmanagement group All (70)
members of the Top Management Group are employed
by the Ministry of Interior Kingdom
relationsThey work for a specific Ministry in a
function for a period of max 7 years goal is 5
years.The Minister of the receiving department
is responsible for setting individual
targets.Only very rarely can a top manager stay
longer than 7 years in one function. The Council
of Ministers decides.
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Yearly working-agreementminister member of
TMGExpectations between minister senior civil
servant. Sgs play a roleQuality improvement of
civil service by making individual contributions
transparent More flexible terms of employment
(in payment working hours) related to
agreements about performance. No one size fits
all, some convergenceNo performance indicators
yet
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Content working-agreements

• relations and communication (expectations)
• policy targets (what do we want to achieve)
• management targets (how)
• personal contributions, also to the public
  service as a whole.

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Yearly cycle working-agreementsPerformance
contract put down on paper (winter
conversation)Taking care of monitoring en
communication Half-yearly evaluation (summer
conversation)Evaluation at the end of the year.

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End of an appointment

• During 24 month period (further) efforts will be
  made. Civil servant in question can be assigned
  to new duties.
• SCS DG investigates the possibility of an new
  appointment.
• If there is no possibility the appointment can be
  terminated.
• Discharge payment equal to unemployment benefits
  plus 10

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Summary/Admission criteria 2011

• From 2011 new admission criteria will apply
• The senior executive manager will have to be able
  to read and write
• complex situations and influence the sequence of
  events. Hell have to grasp back to earlier
  experience in more than one context
• Experience in multiple contexts, not just more
  ministries but also in more cultures, more places
  in public administration, agencies
  municipalities, or outside government
• Of key-importance is the co-operation between
  policy execution therefore functions in both
  positions will have been accomplished before
  acceding the ABD-group. Preferably also
  inspectorates were in the CV.
• International experience. European negotiation
  capacities, knowledge cannot be absent in any SES
  position. The wannabe Managers speak their
  languages.

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