Personnel Guide for Efficient Performance

November 18, 1963 REVENUE MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 62-63 This handbook outlines in a more or less indicative way what conduct and decorum Bureau of Internal Revenue personnel should practice to attain efficient performance. Their cheerful cooperation along the line of thought therein prescribed to improve them is certainly the more important and essential factor of its effectiveness than what can ever be expected of the context of the "GUIDE". However, it would be well and necessary for the personnel to familiarize themselves with the words and spirit of this handbook after which the civil service servant should be on his own responsibility to the public, the office and himself. Always it should be borne in mind that the materials which are hereabout not called rules of conduct are nonetheless so in effect. It goes without saying, therefore, that compliance therewith by the personnel who would show his loyalty to the service is enjoined. It can be observed that, instead of negative, positive statements are used in the outline for reasons of psychological effectiveness upon any individual concerned. The explanatory materials under such positive statement may not always be sufficient to cover all aspects being sought to accomplish in this handbook. In this want, the provisions of Republic Act 2260 otherwise known as the Civil Service Law of 1959, the Rules of the Civil Service Board of Appeals, and other laws should be availed of by the Personnel. aTADCE This "PERSONNEL GUIDE FOR EFFICIENT PERFORMANCE" is along the line described by the President of the Philippines, Diosdado Macapagal, since he invited attention to "the decadent state of our public morality" in his address on the State of the Nation to the Fifth Congress of the Republic of the Philippines, January 22, 1962. The President said then that "our efforts to achieve the goal of economic and social fulfillment will be more effective and the results we obtain more permanent only if we can suffuse them with a pervasive moral regeneration." The President went on further saying that he "would seek to strengthen the nation's moral fiber through formal modes of reform, enforcement of the laws and the exercise of the tremendous persuasive power of the Presidency in setting the personal example of honesty, uprightness and simple living". President Macapagal had invited "all to join the Executive in wielding the potent power of moral example". "In our actions," he said, "we should not be guided only by what is legal. We must go beyond legality into the demands of morality. Our acts must not only be legal but must be moral as well." All Internal Revenue personnel are hereby enjoined to follow this PERSONNEL GUIDE FOR EFFICIENT PERFORMANCE in the most practical way effective immediately. MANILA, PHILIPPINES, November 18, 1963. (SGD.) RAMON T. OBEN Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue