BARANGAY STA.

LUCIA ADMINISTRATION:
AN ASSESSMENT ON PREVAILING PROBLEMS OF ITS PERSONNEL AND STAFF

INTRODUCTION

This is an objective assessment or analysis of the personnel of the Barangay Sta. Lucia Administration,
with subjective observations regarding the general behavior of the staff and personnel manning the
various units of this local government unit.

It will feature a SWOT analysis and based on this, propose alternative courses of action through a
conceptual framework to better improve the functioning of the organization.

BACKGROUND

By and large, all of the Barangay administration in the Philippines were elected recently and are now
in their second year of their incumbency. Sta. Lucia through this process has elected a new council and
a new Chairman after being administered for more than 9 years by the previous leaders.

As it is with offices with elected officials, Barangay administrations suffers from excessive political
appointments in dealing with hiring their personnel and staffs, and this issue doesn’t just emanate from
the Chairman’s will to maintain and promote his candidacy for re-election, but also comes from the
influence of other players such as the Kagawads of the Council.

This is to illustrate or reflect upon the objective realities that the current barangay administration faces,
and what can possibly be done to improve the function of the office for the benefit of the pubic.

SWOT ANALYSIS

Strengths Opportunities
-Fresh mandate -Government sponsored capacity
-New Personnel building interventions
-Strong Leadership -Strong CSO engagement
-Willingness to Reform - -Capable Support System
-Commitment to the People -Existing engagement and partnerships
 -Available Resources with local politicians
-Existing Guidelines

Weaknesses
-Lessened Institutional Memory
-Prevailing “Spoils System”
-Disjunctive personal and political
Agendas
-Untrained staff and personnel
-Ignorance of existing guidelines
Threats
-Upcoming Barangay Elections
-External interest groups
-Social Media Trolls/Bashers
-Former Officials

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Identifiable Problems Political appointments or “Spoils System” is very
1. Squabbling for positions much one of the root causes of ineffectiveness in
2. Personal Conflicts
government offices, as some undesirables and
3. Decreased effectiveness
and efficacy of programs incompetent individuals get positions in the
and services
bureaucracy, to the detriment of the service.
Courses of actions
From this problem originates other concerns that
1. Establish and strengthen takes away from the administration’s focus to
merit-based hiring and
promotion process at the administer to its constituents.
barangay level
2. Source and provide further In solving this through professionalization or adopting
personnel enhancement
a merit-based process will develop the barangay
measures
3. Create a grievance redress administration into a more responsive unit of
mechanism
government, and will be shielded against the effects
4. Increase Remunerations
of politics and elections.

Desired Outcome

1. More capable, professional SUBMITTED BY:

and dedicated workers
2. Harmonious and productive TED S. LAZARO
work-place
3. Effective and efficient GC1-QCMPA204-2019-2020-1
delivery of service