(3)
Impersonality. Leadership is not charismatic but rests on impersonal
rules. These promulgate duties, responsibilities and rights, and lay down
standardised procedures for performing required tasks. Leadership is about
getting the job done by doing it in the correct manner. It is not a case of whom
you know but what you know.
(4)
Specialised Division of Labor. Officers are specialists and therefore
highly
productive. Consequently, appointments to these offices are made
according to specific qualifications. This means that officers possess the
qualifications and training to perform their job effectively and efficiently. This
is the Merit Principle Part 1.
(5)
Promotion Based on Achievement. This means that only the best get to
the top. Only those people capable of making higher level decisions are
appointed to that level. This is the Merit Principle Part 2.
Derivatives of Policy
Preceding argument has been to the effect that making and interpreting law
involve taking purposive action, with the consequence that the only rational
form of reasoning to be utilised is policy. In practice, however, two other
types of reasoning are used for interpreting law. These consist of precedent
and the rules of interpretation. While these appear different to policy, rationally
conceived and properly viewed they can be taken as derivatives of policy.
How this can be done is explained in later discussion.
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