Anti-corruption
commission (ACC):
Control corruption by
identifying hot spots and areas of vulnerabilities for targeted investigative
and trial action, prevention and curative treatment beside preventive education
and advocacy. They try to make a stable
situation through their activate role by legal action against corruption.
The Anti-Corruption
Commission (ACC) is a statutory independent corruption prevention and
corruption detective body of the state, operating under the Anti-Corruption
Commission Act, 2004. It gains further vigor and impetus duly acceding to the
United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) on 27 February 2007.
Vision
of the ACC: To create a strong anti-corruption culture
that permeates throughout the whole society.
Mission:
To persistently combat for removing corruption, control the present unstable
situation in every corrupted sector, suppress and prevent corruption in
Bangladesh.
Strategic
objectives:
·
Combating corruption through punitive action
·
Pre-empting corruption through systems
review
·
Preventing Corruption through education
and advocacy
These are supported by
four supporting objectives:
·
Designing organizational structure
·
Designing operating mechanisms
·
Providing human resource support and
good internal governance
·
Providing sound financial and logistical
support
The
Commission is accountable for:
Ø enquiry
and investigation into the scheduled offences on any allegation of corruption
on own initiative, or upon an aggrieved person or by any person on his /her
behalf;
Ø file
and conduct cases on the basis of enquiry and investigation;
Ø promote
the values of honesty and integrity in order to prevent corruption and take
measures to build up mass awareness against corruption; and
Ø Identify
the sources of different types of corruption existing in Bangladesh against the
backdrop of the country's socio-economic conditions and present any
recommendations for appropriate action.
In
respect of enquiry and investigation ACC is authorized to:
v issue
notices to witnesses, ensure their appearance and interrogate them; discover
and present any document;
v take
evidence;
v call
for public records or its certified copies from any court office;
v Issue
notices for the interrogation of witnesses and the examination of documents;
and any other matter required for realsing and fulfilling the aims and
objectives of this law.
Commission
& Executive Management
The Commission
comprises of a chairman and two Commissioners. The Chairman is the chief
executive of the Commission. He entrusts the duties to the two Commissioners
for which they are accountable to the Chairman. The Chairman and two
Commissioners are appointed by the President for a period of five years on the
recommendation of the Selection Committee constituted under Section 7 of the
ACC Act, 2004.
Their tenures are
secured with the provision that “No Commissioner shall be removed from office
except on similar grounds and in accordance with the similar procedures as
apply to the removal of a judge of the Supreme Court”.
The Chairman and the
Commissioners enjoy the status and privileges of a judge of the Appellate
Division and the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh
respectively.
Organizational
Structure:
Hierarchical
structure of the ACC
Change
Management in Anti-corruption commission:
If we think about any
change in anti-corruption commission’s rules, regulation and work procedure
that should ne needed to follow some criteria, When an organization proposes
any sort of major change, it’s bound to be viewed as exciting to some people
and threatening to others. This is perhaps the biggest challenge to
Organizational Change Management (OCM). Anti-corruption commission is not out
of the other organization here we should face some important challenge for
change. Here government and organization both need to eager for change. It doesn’t matter whether this is a big change
or a little one, or whether it is driven by internal processes or the external.
People will need to change for decreasing corruption by strict rules and
regulations.
People may have to
alter their behavior, adopt new mindsets, learn and adapt to new processes and
practices, adhere to a different set of policies, or make any number of other
changes. All the people involved with the proposed change, “the stakeholders,”
must be on board and committed for this process to obey properly.
Generals
electric seven steps change management model apply on ACC:
Steps and model which
might apply for change management in anti-corruption commission, we basically
use general electric’s (GE)seven steps
model for accelerating change in organization level.
Before applying GE
seven steps model in any organization we need to analyze clearly how change suite
everywhere properly. Each step may not perfect fit for other organization
change. So let’s try to apply to this
model in Anti-corruption commission.
1. Clear explanation of
reason for change:
In order to implement successful changes in ACC, we
will need to imagine what the best possible end result will look like once it’s
all said and done. With this vision in place, then it’s a matter of listing and
documenting the necessary tasks to accomplish it, and outlining how, and by
whom, these tasks will be completed. The commission is namely independent, they
not enjoy self-governing system. The recruitment process is not fair, political
recruitment cannot bring any good result to for controlling corruption.
2. Establish vision:
Thinking
about the vision of ACC we need to take initiative fog change. Every successful
change management has well-defined governance, which is basically the framework
for making decisions and the set of pre-determined processes for implementing
those decisions. To establish vision of ACC we should play active role in field
level. This difficult task for every person in this situation because the
corrupted person always more powerful.
3. Line up leadership:
It’s important that you
establish dedicated organizational leaders, both at the top and throughout the
organization, to keep the change management process stable. The chosen leaders
should be committed, reliable and able to influence others to get on board
through their example. ACC has more power to control corruption but they have
lack of exercise the power in field level. If authority or chairman take a leadership
role to this sector, it might possible to reduce the rate of corruption in our
country.
4. Mobilize the workforce:
ACC is an independent
authority they can investigate any corruption related issue if the hear any accusation
about person or organization. In order to ensure participation, support and
commitment, it’s necessary to keep all stakeholders in the loop and updated
during every step of the change management process. Lines of communication
should be kept open so employees aren’t given information merely to help them
understand what’s going on.
5. Measure the progress:
There should be at
least a few people who are ready to adopt the change early on, and these
stakeholders can become your biggest advocates to help get other folks on board
with the transition. Good advocates, of course, should also demonstrate strong
leadership abilities as well as other professional and personal strengths that
attract respect from others. I think ACC has great public support to take
initiative in field level for corruption control. Measure of progress should be
easy if worker change their mind set in organization level.
6. Maintain consistency:
By monitoring the
change as it’s happening, measuring whether its implementation is successful
and making changes as necessary, you can avoid more costly mistakes later on.
There are many different means, both formal and informal, for assessing and maintain
the change process. Basically the goal is to correct any issues quickly, and
get feedback once corrections have been made to make sure the corrections are
working. To Keep consistency on the work procedure and change process, people
may get better output in this way.
7. Change the systems and
structures:
This is critical stage
for ACC, because system and structure of this organization is hand on
government but they can change in internal work planning. This requires a
detailed understanding of how the change is affecting them and any worries and
concerns they may have. You don’t want to get too far off course, but people’s
needs must be addressed. If people are having a negative emotional impact they
will never fully adapt.
Overall
conclusion of change management in ACC:
ACC is an independent
commission in our country; it has specific mission and vision to provide
service in state level. The model of change management is not fully suite for
ACC. Because each organization has own mission and vision, that wouldn’t match
other. Public and private organizations have different strategy and rules to
run their organization. In this sense ACC may apply GE seven steps model in
change process. Criteria of ACC are so hard to make change but work procedure
in corruption reduction may possible if change is accepted by authority. Keep
in mind any kinds of change in ACC for corruption reduction in central to local
some people are not accept but authority should handle any kind of situation
and ignore the compete against people.
Bibliography
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https://birdsongdyer.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/ges-change-accelerating-process-cap-model-overview/
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