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Because PMS provides direct technical staff support to the President, the level and impact of decisions made by the President dictate that PMS adheres to the highest standards of performance, consistent with the style and expectations of the President. It is, therefore, imperative for PMS to undertake Completed Staff Work (CSW) for the President. CSW is a minimum requirement in handling any task given to PMS.
By definition, CSW is the study of a problem or a situation and formulation of solutions or courses of action by a staff to enable his superior to effect an immediate decision. CSW is actually a situation whereby all pertinent information to be used as basis for decision-making are made available to the decision-maker.
Through the years, the doctrine of CSW has been adhered to by PMS. However, it is under the administration of President Fidel V. Ramos that compliance to CSW has been expressedly imposed by the President upon all government instrumentalities particularly when it comes to communications and dealings with the President. Today, CSW has become PMS's operational working norm.
The objectives of CSW are as simple as they are noble: to facilitate correct, timely, and objective decision-making; to provide for effective management of issues or situations; and to ensure responsiveness to the public and clients or key players affected.
CSW covers all aspects of technical work in PMS -from conceptualization, to research, coordination, validation, analysis and evaluation, communication, and follow through. When an output comes from PMS, it is expected that the output has gone through the CSW process and is, therefore, marked with the following characteristics of a CSW output: well-researched, properly coordinated and validated, analyzed extensively, provides options and recommendations specially for contentious issues, provides the proper action documents to implement decisions, simple and well-written, with ideas chronologically and logically sequenced, and with follow-up action such as monitoring and reporting to the superior.
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