DIGITAL COMPETENCE OF CIVIL SERVANTS AS A RISK FACTOR FOR THE REPUTATION OF GOVERNMENT UNDER CONDITIONS OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION (AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
T. V. BOROVIKOVA ◽  
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N. N. ROZANOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
High Level ◽  
Regional Authorities

The article actualizes the task of forming digital competence of civil servants from the position of value-based approach, the application of which can neutralize the risks of reducing the reputational potential of the authorities. These risks are associated with the problem of insufficiently high level of information openness of regional authorities in the conditions of digital transformation; the expediency of considering information open-ness as a significant indicator of digital maturity of public administration is substantiated.

Exploration of the technocratic mentality among European civil servants

2021 ◽  
pp. 002085232199642
Author(s):  
Ringa Raudla ◽  
James W. Douglas ◽  
Zachary Mohr
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Positive Interactions ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
High Level ◽  
Proper Balance

Civil servants vary in the degree to which they hold technocratic attitudes. We explore whether bureaucrats’ exposure to politics and politicians is associated with the depoliticization dimension of the technocratic mentality. We use survey data of high-level executives in 19 European countries to explore factors that are associated with executives’ perceptions that removing issues and activities from the realms of politics leads to more farsighted policies. We find that respondents’ level of exposure to politics and politicians is indeed negatively associated with technocratic mentality. Bureaucrats have studied political science or public administration, work closer to politicians (in terms of type of organization), interact with them more frequently, and have more positive perceptions of these interactions tend to have lower levels of technocratic attitudes. Points for practitioners Beliefs affect behaviors and behaviors affect outcomes. Technocratic attitudes may limit the ability of civil servants to work effectively with politicians. We show that educational degrees that promote democratic values and exposure to politicians (particularly positive interactions) are associated with lower levels of technocratic attitudes. Given that a proper balance between political and technical knowledge can enhance organizational performance (Krause et al., 2006), these findings should be taken into account when staffing and structuring public organizations.

scholarly journals Modern Trends in the Development of the Regional Economic Management System in the Context of Digital Globalization

2021 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 07053
Author(s):  
Olga Prikhodchenko ◽  
Vladimir Panskov ◽  
Lubov Afanasyeva
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Economic Sphere

Research background: In modern conditions of the digital transformation of the economy, digital data are key factors in the development of the socio-economic sphere. Inevitably, the digitalization process is accompanied by the development and transformation of human resources, the formation of a knowledge economy, which leads to serious changes in social relations, the economic sphere and the labor market both at the state level and at the level of regional systems. The scientific interest in the research topic is due to the fact that effective strategic management of the region, the possibilities of its socio-economic development are largely determined by the development of the digital economy at the regional level. Purpose of the article: development of a model of digital transformation at the regional level, which will improve the quality of strategic management based on the results. Methods: a method of theoretical analysis of the sources of the studied problem, an illustrative-graphic method, general scientific methods of cognition (synthesis, generalization). Findings & Value added: Currently, digital transformation penetrates into all areas, including socio-economic, financial, public administration. Therefore, the mechanism of strategic management of the region should be based on digitalization technologies. In this article, the author reviews foreign and domestic studies on the introduction of modern digital technologies in public administration. The article discusses the existing digital platforms designed to improve the efficiency of the processes of program-targeted and design-targeted management of budgetary resources. Effective strategic management of the development of the region in modern conditions is possible taking into account the processes of digital transformation. Based on the study, the author constructed a model of digital transformation at the regional level, characterized its main elements.

scholarly journals Digital transformation of public administration in Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
pp. 01029
Author(s):  
Viktor Zakharov ◽  
Boris Zalivanskiy ◽  
Viktor Sapryka ◽  
Elena Samokhvalova
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
State System ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Skills

In modern conditions of emergence of a new “digital” picture of the world, the study interest is represented by the changes taking place in the system of public administration in Russia, as well as the main barriers hindering the digital transformation of management practices. To this end, the authors of the article analyzed statistical data for 2019-2021, characterizing the “digital maturity” of domestic authorities, conducted their own sociological study on the problems of digitalization of public administration. The results obtained indicate that, in addition to the insufficient and uneven pace of technological change (in the context of Russian territories), the lack of necessary digital skills among employees and the population, the effectiveness of digital transformation significantly reduces the lack of understanding by civil servants of the value, essence of digital transformation and its tools. In addition, modernization of the state system in the interests of the population is impossible without effective communications “population-government”, the construction of which is currently complicated by mutual distrust.

scholarly journals Formation of Digital Competence of State Servants in the Conditions of Government Digitalisation: The Problem Statement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina Bannykh ◽  
Svetlana Kostina
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Professional Socialization ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Digital Competencies ◽  
Digital Competency

In the context of public administration digitalization the importance of human resources and their quality increases, which requires state employees to possess new digital competencies (knowledge and skills), and often to master new professional functions that enable them to function effectively in the new digital environment. However, under these conditions, in the process of their professional socialization, a number of problems emerge. The purpose of the research is to determine the conditions and factors affecting the digital competency formation required in the transition to digital public administration of the civil servants digital competencies, as well as to identify contradictions that emerge in their formation process. The study was conducted on the basis of the information society concept, E-Government and the paradigm of the new public administration. The main research methods were documents analysis and statistical data analysis. The study has fixed that one of the factors hindering successful professional socialization in the context of public administration digitalisation is the uncertainty in the content of servants’ digital competencies they need, including taking into account future development prospects. The existing vocational education system cannot form digital competencies at the required level for several reasons (closed access to basic digital services and platforms, a variety of departmental digital services and workflow systems available in only one department, etc.). Civil servants are forced to master digital technology is more on its own. The main contradiction emerges in the process of creating digital competencies is the lack of officially fixed requirements for the availability of state and municipal employees’ digital competencies and the lack of mechanisms for their assessment in the selection or certification process. Moreover, the need to master the relevant digital competencies follows from regulatory documents. Keywords: digital competency of civil servants, digital competencies, digital literacy, professional socialization, digitalisation of public administration

Historical Development of American Public Administration

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mordecai Lee
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Ronald Reagan ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Administrative Management ◽  
Political Machines ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Level

The historical development of American public administration has evolved through four eras: clerks, civil service, administrative management, and under siege. During its early years government staffing was very sparse. A gradual thickening of the government workforce occurred during the 1800s, which was the era of clerks. Some were one-person agencies consisting of an elected official with administrative duties; others were patronage appointments by the candidate winning the presidency (or governor or mayor) rewarding supporters with jobs. After the Civil War, Union veterans increasingly populated nonpatronage positions. The assassination of President Garfield in 1881 by a disappointed office seeker crystalized public dissatisfaction with patronage, whether in Washington or by corrupt urban political machines. In 1883, the U.S. Congress passed a bill to create a merit-based civil service system. This began a second era of American public administration, that of civil servants. The original law only covered about 10% of all federal employees, but it set the precedent for gradual expansion of an apolitical civil service. Presidents came and went, but expert civil servants were unaffected. The rise of civil service also necessitated having employees to oversee them. These apolitical and expert managers led to the new profession of public administration, a development that required not only qualified practitioners but also credentialed faculty to train them. The 1932 election of Franklin Roosevelt as president triggered a third era, that of administrative management. This was a term used by FDR’s reorganization planning committee partly because it connoted a high-level focus on the president’s managerial needs. The concept encompassed both line and staff roles. Line officials ran bureaus and were accountable to the president. Staff functions, such as budgeting, HR, and planning facilitated effective management. In the post-FDR decades, especially after the 1960s, there was a gradually growing backlash against his kind of public administration. This became the fourth era, of government employees under siege. The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 epitomized it. Government was not the solution, he liked to say, government was the problem. Politicians now ran for office against government. Increasingly, the bureaucracy at all levels of government was viewed with hostility, an enemy needing to be controlled and reduced. Bureaucrats became the bad guys in America’s ongoing political narrative. After the election of President Donald Trump, a more ominous term came into use: the deep state. Supposedly, the bureaucracy now had a life of its own and could even destroy a president if it wanted to. Presumably, a fifth era of American public administration will eventually succeed this age of hostility toward all things governmental. If American history tells us anything, the outlines and themes of the fifth era will likely be surprising and unexpected. Nonetheless, government in a democracy will always need some form of public administration. No matter its precise outline, future public administration will likely retain the core values that government cannot be run like a business, that government’s purpose is to promote the public interest, and that public administration cannot be perfect. Mistakes will always happen, but these can be learning experiences for improvement rather than excuses for increasingly dysfunctional bureaucratic behavior.

scholarly journals MARKERS OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF CIVIL SERVANTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (9) ◽  
pp. 85-98
Author(s):  
Nataliya NOVIKOVA ◽  
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Raisa NAUMENKO ◽  
Anastasiy ILINA ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
High Level

The authors determined indicators of professional competence of civil servants under conditions of reforming the system of public administration. Scientific approaches to interpretation of the concepts of “governance” and “public administration” are generalized and the relationship of these terms is analyzed. The main markers of professional competence of civil servants in the public sphere are being considered. The results of the study found that a significant proportion of civil servants for various reasons does not deal with the systematic development of their professional resource, which is based on creativity. At the same time, a high level of tension in professional activity, specific difficulties in the public service system cause problems in personal and professional development of civil servants, complicating the process of disclosing this potential and, accordingly, obtaining a higher level of competence for the pursuit of professional activity. Among the effective areas of training of civil servants and raising their professional competence, the authors highlight (i) the development and justification of new criteria for evaluating the qualities, efficiency and effectiveness of management personnel in the field of civil service, (ii) stimulation of professional growth in the process of annual evaluation, and (iii) participation in open competitions. Accordingly, the development of further research is determined by the possibility of improving the theoretical and methodological foundations of studying the markers of professional competence of civil servants as applied aspects of the harmonization of the process of their professionalization taking into account the modern requirements of the new model of public administration.

scholarly journals Issues of training and retraining of civil servants

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-83
Author(s):  
Tatyana Zueva ◽  
Natalya Smirnova ◽  
Akerke Bekakhmetova
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Advanced Training ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Interdisciplinary Integration

The article substantiates the importance of forming a professional state apparatus at the regional level in the context of contemporary challenges of reality. Based on the institutional task of the Academy and its branches, a special place is determined for the system of retraining and advanced training of civil servants. The authors consider the content of the concept of “interdisciplinary integration” and present their experience in building the educational process of retraining courses for civil servants of corps “B” on the basis of interdisciplinary integration as a principle of a result-oriented approach.An example of compiling a map of interdisciplinary interfaces is given and factors accompanying the successful implementation of the principle of interdisciplinary integration are described with a description of their practical implementation in the activities of the Branch of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Kostanay region.

scholarly journals Weaknesses in Motivation and in Establishing a Meritocratic System: A Portrait of the Portuguese Public Administration

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Z. F. C. Nishimura ◽  
Ana Moreira ◽  
Maria José Sousa ◽  
Manuel Au-Yong-Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
And Performance ◽  
High Level

The complexities of Public Administration have gained the growing attention of scholars around the world, mainly due to the impacts of the reforms implemented under the doctrine of New Public Management (which aims to apply concepts and practices of private management in public management) on civil servants. The aim of this study is to find out how Portuguese citizens evaluate the Portuguese Public Administration under the aspects of bureaucracy, organisation of human resources, innovation, skills and attitudes of civil servants, its motivation and recognition; and to verify if there are differences of opinion between respondents working in public sector and respondents from other sectors. This study follows a quali-quantitative approach, and data were collected through an online survey in the period from June to December 2020. The survey was answered by 1119 citizens from all districts of Portugal. The main findings reveal a still high level of bureaucracy in the Portuguese Public Administration; weaknesses in the management of human resources, namely regarding the motivation and recognition of civil servants; and difficulties in the establishment of a meritocratic system of recruitment and performance evaluation of civil servants. Statistically significant evaluation differences (chi-square test and non-parametric Mann–Whitney U tests, involving five hypotheses) were found between the public sector and other sectors, except for the motivation variable.

Modernization of Russian Economy: Radical Improvement of Investment Climate (The Economic Report of All-Russia Public Organization "Delovaya Rossiya")

2010 ◽  
pp. 68-89
Author(s):  
. Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia)
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Public Organization ◽  
Investment Climate ◽  
Economic Report ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Current State ◽  
Regional Authorities

The repot considers the current state of the Russian economy, analyzes the drawbacks of the functioning export-raw materials model of its development. The necessity of its changing on the basis of improving the investment climate on the regional level is noted. Corresponding measures on behalf of federal and regional authorities are formulated as well as the directions of innovation policy aimed at modernizing the Russian economy. The conclusion is made that private non-raw materials business should become the main agent of modernization in our country.

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