ADDITIONAL PROPOSALS REGARDING THE COMPOSITION OF A WORLD GOVERNMENT (cont.)

THE SELECTION PROCESS
Who would comprise the personnel of these new governmental entities that I have been proposing herein?

As I have stated in the past, the roles of highest leadership should be filled by the most capable and competent individuals in the various fields of endeavor from which such leaders would be required.  Moreover, such persons should be free from political or monetary aspirations, as regards their roles in office.

A method would have to be instituted to determine the identity of at least several such people within each respective field as should be required.  There should be no political activity in the identification or choosing of those who would be listed among the persons to be requested to thus serve mankind in these capacities.  No person, group, or entity would arbitrarily nominate or appoint anyone.  Instead, nominations and appointments would need to be accomplished via an objective process, constituting a logical and objective method of determination.  

Individuals' educations, employments, experiences, and accomplishments--together with, or matched against, the parameters and requirements for the function or position in question--would comprise elements of the computation suggested for thus determining the most appropriate persons to perform in each role.  Personal details, regarding potential nominees' age, state of health, personal circumstances, life experiences, and other such relevant data, could and should also be included as part of the decision-making process.

Might compouter programs be created to assist in determinations such as this?  This is theoretically possible--and perhaps preferable to the human tendency to involuntary consider extraneous or irrelevant facts and circumstances.  But questions would arise, and issues need to be resolved, concerning things including:
a.  who would compose such programs; and
b.  the content, and consequent reliability, of same.

Appointments would be made following consent to so serve by the highest ranked nominee.  As has been stated earlier, a scale of very generous compensation would likely need to be established, in order to further convince some of such individuals to leave their present situations to take part in the birth and cultivation of a vastly improved world.

Terms should probably ordinarily be lifetime in duration, or for so long as the officeholder should be willing and capable to so serve, with no significant reduction in competence and performance; and not having become junaccfeptable to the world's populace for some essential reason.  On the other hand, procedures should be in place for the resignation or removal of officeholders whose capability or performance should be objectively determinjed to have become diminished.  Of course, resignation would be available to all, at any time, as is the case with government officials at present.

There would, moreover, need to be provision for processes, somewhat similar to our present-day arrangements for impeachment and/or recall, when it appears that an individual is performing less than in accordance with (logically and objectively) determined expectations or requirements--and fails to recognize or refuses to admit this fact as a basis for his or her resignation.

In addition to the above, means and procedures would need to be developed and put into place to guard against, detect, and deal with, corruption on the part of any member of, or group within, the governing body.

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As for the next tiers of service, and the balance of government positions, tests should be administered worldwide, among present as well as erstwhile government functionaries and employees, in order to achieve and maintain a uniform level of competence and capability within every level of each of the respective functions.  Concerning all of these positions as well, generous compensation should be provided, in order to help maintain motivation, and to enable such persons the world over to live lives of sufficiency and dignity. 

And, of course, opportunities for advancement, accompanied by appropriate increases in pay, should exist for every such government functionary and employee.  In view of the existence of a single worldwide economy, pay levels for all similar positions would be more or less equal everywhere (other than, as I have stated in the past, regarding pay for the same duties to be performed in less desirable, more uncomfortable, or more dangerous circumstances or locales).

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