Guide to Restructuring Ministerial Human Resources Directorates

OMRH's operational guide for restructuring ministerial human resources directorates, setting out a model structure, its functions and the staffing each size of institution needs. It is a working instrument rather than a policy statement, and it ends with a diagnostic questionnaire on the state of HR structure and functioning inside ministries and public bodies, so a directorate can situate itself before redesigning.

Its foreword makes an unusual argument for a technical guide: that neither market liberalization nor democracy by itself explains why some societies prosper, and that more than ten years of research at the University of Gothenburg's Quality of Government Institute points to the quality of administration as the answer. That frames HR restructuring as an economic question rather than an administrative one.

The guide then works from measured workload rather than from an ideal chart. Administrative HR management tasks, including hygiene and safety and HR reporting, account for 58 percent of the work, while strategic functions such as overall planning and social policy account for 11 percent, and the model structures are sized against total institution staffing, with an institution of up to about 300 people needing between four and six HR staff. It presents structures that would be acceptable for small and medium institutions in Haiti's civil service, which is the size most of them actually are.