Examinations for Participants in Seminars and the Use of Ratings Therein As Basis for Personnel Action

May 31, 1978 REVENUE MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 17-78 SUBJECT : Examinations for Participants in Seminars and the Use of Ratings Therein As Basis for Personnel Action TO : All Internal Revenue Officers and Employees Concerned In line with our policy of providing a continuing development program for our personnel, we have been conducting seminars to upgrade the knowledge of our employees, develop their skills and improve the quality of their performance. However, we have not fully gauged the impact of said seminars because with the exception of the examinations given to Revenue Examiners as an adjunct to the seminars conducted for them, no analogous tests were given to those who participated in the other seminars held. cdt In order to enable us to assess the effectiveness of the seminars we conduct, determine the deficiencies, shortcomings or weaknesses, both of the seminars and the participants, and thus provide improvements in approach and methodology, it is hereby required that appropriate examination be given to all participants at the conclusion of all seminars conducted by the Bureau, which will be apart from the qualifying examinations required to be given periodically to revenue examiners. Ratings obtained in all these examinations will be used, where appropriate, as a basis for personnel action. Apart from the ratings in the qualifying examinations being used in the classification of examiners to determine the kind of returns they can examine, the same and other ratings in examinations to be given by virtue hereof will be used as one of the criteria for promotion, transfer, selection of scholars for abroad and of those to be sent to attend training courses, seminars or conferences outside or within the Philippines, like those sponsored by PICPA, GACPA and others, selection of tax campaigners abroad, and for other purposes. Strict compliance herewith is enjoined. aisa dc EFREN I. PLANA Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue