ABSTRACT
Information management is an important element in the total development of a
nation. Although African governments acknowledged this fact little or no effort
was made in the solving of the problems of poor information management.
In Ghana, the inefficiency in the public sector could be partly attributed to poor
management of records. Clearing, the records keeping system established in the
colonial era can no longer cope with the complex and growing challenges of
modem administration.
The cost to the machinery bf government depending on the poor records systems
cannot be measured. The systems have also deprived the government agencies
the needed information for administration and development. It has undermined
their ability to formulate, evaluate and maintain continuity of policy.
The Public Services Commission is an important agency of government With
personnel management functions. The study will establish that the
responsibilities and executive functions of the Commissio!l had led to increasing
burden on the records management systems in operation. The study is to bring
to the notice of the Commission the need for it's record management systems to
be restructured and computerised in order to stimulate greater efficiency in the
formulation and implementation of govemment policies and programmes.
Proposals on the computerising of the records management systems would be
presented with recommendations that it would lead to efficiency and
:;~S8 of the record systems,
