The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has indicated that though he is an object of criticisms in Ghana, the same helps him to reflect.
He said criticism brings different perspectives to him about his work.
According to the President, criticism is an important ingredient in the life of public service, as it enhances output.
President Akufo-Addo was addressing a delegation from the International Organisational Development Association (IODA) which paid him a courtesy call at Jubilee House yesterday.
IODA is an international association of professionals, academicians and students engaged in work that helps organisations and communities to be healthier and more effective.
While congratulating the members of the Association for the work they do, President Akufo-Addo also acknowledged the difficulties public sector workers go through, and would not tend to join in the criticisms.
“But, nevertheless, criticism is an important part of the enhancement of everybody’s job. I am the main object of criticism in Ghana, and it helps me, because it brings different perspectives to me, and it allows me to reflect about the work I am doing.”
He encouraged them to continue with the work they do, assuring them that the government would play its part to support them.
The President spoke well about the work of the IODA, indicating that it was needed in the public service sector.
Introducing the delegation to the President, the Head of Civil Service said it was a group of worthy practitioners with the idea of bringing a new way of doing things across the nation.
He said the IODA, after a long while, had a Ghanaian as the head, in the person of Professor Noble Kumawu.
He said the approach for Organisational Development (OD) was to get organisations to identify their own challenges, own up and address them.
He recalled that in the past, OD experts were brought from outside of the country for such purposes, but did not help after the experts left.
The new head, Professor Noble Kumawu, was excited to sit in front of the President, stating that he did not “know if he would be able to sleep.”
He said that Ghana had been recognised at a good level for its own to be chosen to lead the international group, which operates in about 50 countries, including the United States.
Explaining the brain behind OD, Mr. Kumawu remarked that it facilitates organization’s ability “to reflect, self-regulate and take control of its own processes of improvement and learning with a view to effectively achieving its reasons for existing.”
He said their work is to engage clients to arrive at a suitable solution.
