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The Queen, met by the Chief of the South African Navy, Vice Admiral Robert Simpson-Anderson, arrives by helicopter in Simonstown to join HMV Britannia.
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"For the second time since the Bathe of Trafalgar sea power, relentlessly applied, has preserved and sustained our nation and Commonwealth.
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U "WAIT and see" Is the Navy's first response to the Ben Review - the wide ranging study of Service manpower published last month.
It will be 'many years" before major recommendations - there are over 150 in total - such as new career and pay structures come into effect, in any, form. At this stage none are set in concrete and no decisions have been taken. Former deputy chairman of British Telecom Michael Bert led a team (which included former Gin-('Naval Home Command Admiral Sir John Kerr) that over the past year has interviewed over 5,000 personnel in order to point the way for terms and conditions of service in the year 2010. He concluded that the Armed Forces should have "much greater responsibility for the strategic and the day-today management of their people, and their conditions of employment and adopt a more positive personnel management style" - a "culture change" that would be a major challenge in the years ahead. Some media reports that immediately followed the repon suggested that it rejected the traditional qualities of leadership in favour of commercial in practice personnel management.
Leadership
Not so, says Second Sea Lord. Admiral Sir Michael Layard. "There is a danger of confusing the two - in fact one thing that Mr Bett is absolutely clear on is the importance of leadership. It is one area in which industry has learned from us. ---But he is suggesting that people who work in personnel management in the Services ncccl to become more familiar 'ith certain non military sub. like employment kgislajrc1 flon, job evaluation techniques ,iitd pensions administration. It happens that some of the sughe has pug forward are Wlions ing taken up already - for instance personnel managers including the Navy's own Service lawyers, are an more versed in European becoming employment Legislation. "The various training
schools are looking to ste how they, can relate further to NVQ's, which he covers in this report, and in the NPFS. where we already have professionally qualified social workers, he recommends this as the way ahead, "So there are a number of
aspects of the report which already coincide with the Navy's thinking - and bearing in mind that the team went to a great deal of trouble to visit the Navy, and talk, to people in nine ships and as many shore establishments, I would have been disappointed if there weren't.
"We are flow taking the time - and it will take a long to look at the recommendations and work out how and if they can be developed. "Developed' is the key word here. It may be that quite a lot of recommendations, as they stand, are not practical, will be
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too or ssitt not suit the needs of the Services. To this end, we will he seeking the views of all Service personnel through the Command chain. Consultation is going to play an importani part in the further work. 0 Turn to page 16