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the other personnel administrators,
might well take stock of. ourselves to
find out whether sortie of our estab
lished fetishés cannot be discarded, and
more thought given to some very real
problems that budgetary and admin
istrative officials face.
Another observation concerns thè
very human reaction against certain of
the types of federal supervision* with
which the state personnel administra
tor must deal in developing and ad
ministering an acceptable personnel pro
gram. Our observations are made with
full awareness of the very cooperative
relationships which most federal agen
cies have shown our staff, and without
overlooking the very substantial merit
system gains which the various federal -
agencies, particularly the Social Security
Administration, have fostered. It is un
pleasant, none the less, in any state
which is relatively free from political
domination in its personnel' program^
and has competent administrative lead
ership, to have what are in our opinion
unreasonable "musts” in the * way of
purely technical and administrative de
tail forced upon the personnel agency,
with the withholding of federal funds:
as the alternative. The Oregon Civil
Service Compiission, while ; recognizing
that such mandates necessarily stem
from, the administration of nation-wide
policies, hasx resisted unreasonable-'tech
nical requirements- yduch impose hard
ships on sound administration of the
state servi'ee.Si. Wé feel- that much of
mutual benefit would be derived from
a reconsideration of the whole problem
of state-federal merit System relation
ships.
The foregoing- discussion- reflects the
writers’ view that now is perhaps fhê
appropriate time for a serious and ob
jective re-evaluation of the role of the
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