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that complicate the performance control and its achievements more than its counterpart
peculiarities in Corporate Sectors.
Indicate the specific indicators of the aforementioned taking into context the (1) performance
measurement of local health workers, (2) the fundamental problem over appropriate valid
performance measures, and the (3) cost benefits of performance appraisal which runs
incongruous to the service nature of PSO.
The parallelism between sustaining perpetual progress in public sector performance and
containment of expenditure growth poses a grave challenge that confronts Public Sector
Organizations or PSOs with their reality. Public sector efficiency, timeliness, and control come
without a specified blueprint for enhancing operations. Hence, the adoption of diverse
approaches to combat the instabilities attached to the PSOs’ institutional arrangements has been
waged as a priority for most public sector regimes. Notwithstanding the plethora of difficulties
that it seeks to infringe, specifically on the dimensions of history, administration, and
management culture within a public sector, the root complications stem from various, seemingly
invisible, ends. Performance control in PSOs requires sensibility in the implementation of various
productivity measures. To accurately benchmark increased and sustained performance, there
must be a sober judgment on how to place classified avenues to maintain the effect of public
resources on its designated targets (Somani, 2021). Contrary to for-profit organizations where
revenue is not the dominant driver, PSOs are prone to suffering from a lack of, or even
unsustained, checks and balances mechanisms to satisfy their objectives. According to Kaupa and
Atiku (2020), key findings from their study that underpinned key challenges by the public sector
can be pigeonholed into six different major themes, namely, the lack of consultation, lack of
flexibility, high level of conformity to process, the existence of silo culture, poor communication,
and poor training of implementation officers.
In the Philippine context, one of the most crucial public sector initiatives would be the
implementation of the primary health care (PHC) strategy in 1978, which is aimed at delivering
essential health services, as well as, preventing and controlling health problems in the community
(Querri, 2020). This strategy is a far-stretching initiative that is anchored in the idea of making
health care available, accessible, and affordable for the community. Querri also mentioned that
part and parcel of the day-to-day implementation of the PHC are the barangay health workers or
BHWs, which carry the key functions of providing service, care, and assistance for specific health
programs such as the Tuberculosis program, maternal and child health, immunization, and
recording the overall health of their barangay among others. The recording process is measured
through the “thirteen folders”, which is the name for the barangay’s localized paper-based
database. Ibo (2019) mentioned that performance control on BHWs revolves around their overall
motivational ability to help the community, attendance to training and seminars, and
honorarium/incentives/annual benefits, which ranked sixth among all the performance
measurement benchmarks. In essence, bettered performance by these BHWs is hampered by
various administrative and fiscal obstacles. One of the fundamental problems that these workers
face is the delay in the provision of their honorarium by the LGU. According to Querri (2020),
while they are spirit-driven in the full thought of volunteerism, all BHWs had experienced delays
for about 3 to 6 months, which amounts to about 23% of their supposed pay. Consequently, a
favorable working environment can be in place if adequate fiscal attention is provided. The
deployment of proper health assessment will only be propelled if the basic materials such as
weighing scale, BP apparatus, and thermometers are, at least, carried by all these health workers.
In all, while fiscal considerations are set to help, the policies engrossed by the government also
play a critical station in the proper enforcement of the BHWs’ working standards. Despite the
implementation of the Republic Act 7883 or also known as the BHW’s Benefit and Incentive Act,
governmental policies, which are currently inadequate in this sector, spur confusion in clarifying
the standards expected of BHWs and their employers as they conduct staff management most
effectively and acceptably possible (Ibo, 2019).
Surely, appropriation of funds for the BHWs and the tremendous work that they do on a
day-to-day basis would require an upgrade from their expected budget. Municipal and barangay
officials should be propelled to lobby for better fiscal management and allotment for this
governmental strategy to make healthcare accessible and affordable for its people. More so, it
should not be a question of funding if there is an evident request for increased budget
appropriation. Given that public health requires more than just the spirit of volunteerism, the
government also must identify key avenues in propelling a streamlined mechanism for barangay
health systems to be effective and beneficial for both its workers and people.
References:
Ibo, J. A. S. (2020). Assessment of Workplace of Barangay Health Workers in Selected
Municipalities in the Province of Albay, Philippines. Bicol University Research and
Development Journal, 22, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.47789/burdj.mbtcbbgs.20192201.7
Kaupa, S. & Atiku, S.O. (2020). Challenges in the Implementation of Performance Management
System in Namibian Public Sector. International Journal of Innovation and Economic
Development, 6(2), 25-34.
Moriarty, P. (2002). Performance measurement in public sector services: problems and potential.
Performance Measurement and
Querri, A. G. (2020, March 20). Assessment of the role of community health volunteers in
delivering primary health care in Manila, the Philippines. 2020 by JAPAN ASSOCIATION
FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jaih/35/1/35_15/_article
Somani, R. (2021, March 4). How can we measure productivity in the public sector? World Bank
Blogs. https://blogs.worldbank.org/governance/how-can-we-measure-productivity-
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