This study purely employs a qualitative research which is aimed at filling the gap and will discuss clearly the overview of both the legal reform processes happening in the public sector of the Philippine government and of recent developments and challenges related to the process of reforms initiated by the Civil Service Commission of the Philippine government being its Central Personnel Agency duly in charge of recruitment and training of all its employees for governmental effectiveness that have occurred right after the Marcos regime which ended in 1984. This paper will cover the years commencing 1986 up to the present dispensation of the Duterte administration. The primordial goal of the investigation is to study and suggest the approaches to reforming the Civil Service system and its decision-making process. This paper outlines the discourse on the reform of public service among scholars and public officials in the Philippines Then, it elaborates on the laws and institutional measures that have provided for the establishment of an effective public personnel administration system in the country. Finally, this paper will also outline which of the approaches and reforms are effective and suitable to the personnel of the Philippine government and the challenges that they have faced in order to meet the increasing demands of public servants in the Philippines. A documentary analysis and a comprehensive review of related literatures on the successful practices of public personnel administration of the most successful public management model will be used to evolve on the possible steps/strategies to further enhance the delivery of personnel services of the government sector workforce in the Philippines. This study will purely involve an examination of secondary data from the Civil Service Commission regulatory manuals and memoranda and other pertinent documents from the other agencies of the Philippine government relative to public personnel administration. Other data can also be gathered through a documentary analysis and a review of related written materials such as the newspaper, magazines and other related studies mostly from the local perspectives of Filipino researchers and practitioners in the Philippine administrative system.

The objective of this book chapter is to establish/develop the readers' awareness on the recent reforms and innovation of the Philippine Civil Service system given a series of the leader's dispensation from the post Marcos regime up to the present dispensation.The public administration researchers, practitioners ,students and scholars would be able to have a clear understanding on the strategies of public sector administrators which they can inevitably apply in their respective department or public agencies or offices.

As I have mentioned previously, its target audience are students , faculty members, researchers and public administration practitioners worldwide.

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Dr. Perfecto G. Aquino,Jr. is currently a Resident Researcher cum Senior Lecturer at the Socio-Economics Research Institute and at the Faculty of Business Administration of Duy Tan University in Danang City, Vietnam. He teaches Human Resources Management, Organizational Behavior and other Business Management related courses in the said higher education institution. Prior to his assignment in Vietnam, Dr. Aquino was an Assistant Professor and Head of the Business Department at the Emirates College for Management and Information Technology (ECMIT) and was a Visting Assistant Professor at the American University in the Emirates , United Arab Emirates. He was also an Assistant Professor at the Gulf College/Staffordshyre University in Oman and at AMA International University-Bahrain. He is a holder of Ph.D in Public Administration and Management at the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas,Manila ,Philippines.Dr. Aquino was awarded in 2019 a CBME Certificate of Professional Teaching by the Chartered Association of Business Schools in United Kingdom.He has published several papers in Scopus, Springer and IGI Global International Publishing, among others.

Mercia Selva Malar Justin, over the past six years, has served as Associate Professor at Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, Bangalore. She has been teaching at the higher education institutions in India and abroad over the past thirty years. Some of the institutions she served are Wollongong University, ECMIT Dubai, SCMS-Cochin, LEAD College of Management, CMS College of Science and Commerce. She has authored the books Aspire to be a Great Teacher, Foreign Exchange Exposure and Risk Management in Indian Hotel Industry and A Daughter’s Tribute to a Godly Father. She won the Outstanding Women Educator and Scholar Award in 2016 and Distinguished Women Educator and Scholar Award in 2017, from National Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development (NFED). In 2023 she was awarded the National Trailblazers Triumph Award – Outstanding Social Sciences Author. She is a regular contributor to University News published by University Grants Commission, India. She served as the Editor of Journal of Management and Entrepreneurship published by XIME, Bangalore.

Revenio C. Jalagat, Jr. is presently employed in Al-Zahra College for Women in the Sultanate of Oman as Assistant Professor since 2013. He had a total accumulated experience of 18 years in both the industry serving as Accountant, Chief Accountant, Finance Manager, and in the Academe as Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Dean in the Philippines. Dr. Revenio also was a lecturer at Gulf College in Oman for almost two and a half years. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the Philippines and graduated Doctor of Management at Capitol University, Philippines. He has published research in internationally reputed journals, including Scopus and Web of Science indexed journals and served as Reviewer and Editorial Member in various international journals.

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