While executive personnel in Belarus will have to live up to higher standards, they will be granted additional powers to manage their subordinates. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko made the statement at the government conference held on 2 December to discuss the draft presidential decree designed to step up requirements for executive personnel and workers of organizations, BelTA has learned.
The head of state remarked that the idea to develop the legal act to step up requirements and enforce higher standards for executive personnel had been brought up more than once. “Our decision implementation standards are extremely low across the board at all levels of the government,” stated the President.
“I have had the draft document on this matter on my table twice and twice have we declined it. Last time we saw that we indeed demand a lot from executive personnel and we should do so in these conditions. But we also stated that before we can demand something from executives, we need to clearly outline their authority and add more powers,” said Alexander Lukashenko. “Otherwise, we may criticize executive personnel all we want while the executives are unable to force their subordinates to produce results. In the end we will get nothing. Therefore, while we lay down most exacting standards that executives will have to live up to, we should give the relevant authority to the executives for them to be able to get their decisions implemented”.
Written by belta.by
