Re-engineering the Iraqi Council of State Comparative study

Abstract

The term “reengineering” is an abbreviation for the term known as reengineering administrative
processes in the organization. It is a radical process of improving and developing work procedures
by redesigning them and all the organization’s facilities at all levels in a way that ensures achieving quality, speed, saving time, and plentiful production, whatever the nature of the organization’s work. Re-engineering administrative processes includes comprehensive improvements based on understanding the nature, characteristics, and tools of the organization or institution subject to this process. It includes developing the human resources aspect, the legislation that governs its work, and developing the mechanisms and systems necessary to achieve excellence and quality in its output. This concept emerged in 1990 in private production and commercial organizations (companies) with the aim of improving production and reducing the costs and using mechanization and modern technology to achieve this purpose. The American engineer Michael Hammer is considered the pioneer of the reengineering theory, which is based on overcoming the difficulties of complex work in the midst of conflicting visions of institutional leaders, the absence of strategic thinking for work, the lack of transparency in work procedures, the difficulty of determine responsibilities, the adherence to administrative positions, and the difficulty of changing responsible individuals of departments that operate according to the mentality of a separate mind or what is called the silo mentality that neutralizes the principle of participation in work and responsibility. This research is an attempt to employ the theory of the reengineering at the level of an independent judicial body, namely the Iraqi Council of State, through redrawing the strategies of judicial, legislative and administrative work, controlling the management and flow of administrative cases, transparency and flexibility in work and getting rid of the forces of resistance to improvements.