PUTRAJAYA: To safeguard the image of the civil service, public sector employees must be creative, inventive, fluid, consultative, courteous and free of corrupt practices, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said.
Addressing over 3,000 decision-makers in the public sector, ministers and chief executive officers of government-linked companies yesterday, he said there must also be a free flow of ideas between top-level officers and their subordinates for the betterment of the service.