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[Music] let's take a look at the Civil Service Reform Act in the course of civil service administration throughout the past two century both the advantages and disadvantages of reform have become clearer personnel problems were on the agenda each time presidential and other Commission's examined the National bureaucracy but prior to 1978 there was little comprehensive change many problems had evolved over long periods of time and solving them posed political as well as managerial challenges certainly one of the most important was the evolution of the merit system from a protection against partisan manipulation to a system that provided what many called excessive job security for employees it made possible virtually automatic salary increases deserved or not and that it made it difficult for responsible managers to dismiss unproductive employees no statute or executive order had ever spelled out the merit principles that were the foundation of the merit system or what personnel practice