The impact of civil service reform on civil service entry and exit

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lo-ming Tsang
Keyword(s):  
Civil Service ◽  
Entry And Exit ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
The Impact

Administrative elites and the crisis: what lies ahead for the senior civil service in Greece?

2014 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calliope Spanou
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Elites ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The nature of the relationship between the public administration and politics and the subsequent role of the administration appear to be incompatible with the emergence of an administrative elite. After analysing the reasons for this incompatibility, the article explores the impact of the measures taken in the wake of the economic crisis on the civil service and its reform, and also the prospects for the development of a senior civil service. The key, and also the challenge, to any change in this direction remains the rebalancing of the relationship between the public administration and politics. Points for practitioners What might interest practitioners is the issue of the conditions of effectiveness of civil service reform in times of economic crisis and significant pressure.

The Changing Face of Georgia's Merit System: Results from an Employee Attitude Survey in the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles W. Gossett
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Service System ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
Attitude Survey ◽  
New Employees ◽  
Merit System ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Will

In 1996, the state of Georgia passed a radical civil service reform law that, in effect, removed all new employees from the traditional civil service system and made them “at-will” employees. Additionally, many functions, such as recruitment and classification, were decentralized to the operating agencies. This study attempts to review the impact of these changes on employees in one of the agencies, the Department of Juvenile Justice. A comparison is made of the attitudes of employees who are covered by civil service regulations and those who are not, principally with respect to organizational commitment and loyalty. The results of the survey suggest that, to date, the impact of these reforms on commitment and loyalty is not significant.

scholarly journals Civil Service Reform in China: Impacts on Civil Servants' Behaviour

2010 ◽  
Vol 201 ◽  
pp. 58-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. Burns ◽  
Wang Xiaoqi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Organization Culture ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
Competitive Selection ◽  
Selection Processes ◽  
Government Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Empirical Material

AbstractChina's civil service reforms sought to improve the performance of civil servants by introducing more competitive selection processes, incentives to reward performance, and tightened monitoring and supervision. The impact of the reforms was undermined by clashes with other policies being implemented at the time and by a failure to address elements of organization culture that have rewarded various forms of illegal behaviour, such as corruption. Empirical material for our study is drawn from government data and the experience of civil service reform in three Chinese urban areas (Beijing's Haidian district, Changchun and Ningbo) since the 1990s.

scholarly journals The Instrumental and Ideological Politicisation of Senior Positions in Poland’s Civil Service and its Selected Consequences

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanisław Mazur ◽  
Michał Możdżeń ◽  
Marek Oramus
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
Administration System ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Radical Reconstruction

AbstractThe article focuses on the problem of the civil service’s dependence on its political superiors in Poland in 1996–2017. It aims to analyse the motivations of politicians responsible for civil service reforms and to assess the impact of these reforms on the effectiveness of the corps’ functioning. The authors conceptualise the problem of politicisation of the civil service by referring to the theory of politicisation adding an extra dimension of political ideas and institutions as an important factor of change in Poland’s public administration system. The article describes the stages of civil service reform in Poland over the last twenty years, taking into account the political context, the most important postulated changes and the associated controversies with reference to the concepts outlined in the theoretical part. The study also comprises a relevant literature review based on a number of sources, including the reports published by the Head of the Civil Service in Poland, international databases (including Quality of Government) and specialist reports with a particular emphasis on research devoted to Central Europe. The findings paint a multi-layered and nuanced picture of the evolution of the Polish civil service and its strong associations with the issue of the so-called “unfinished transformation”. In addition the article confirms that both the instrumentalisation of institutions by the “camp” of political opportunists and their formal, radical reconstruction by the “ideological contrarians” resulting in the centralisation of power around the ruling parties have had a negative effect on the quality of civil service functioning in Poland.

Civil service reform in Kazakhstan: trajectory to the 30 most developed countries?

2017 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saltanat Janenova ◽  
Colin Knox
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
The World ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Selection Of

Kazakhstan has ambitious plans to become one of the top 30 developed countries in the world by 2050. Its most recent route map to achieve this is the Plan for the Nation: 100 Concrete Steps, announced by the president in May 2015. A key pillar in this reform agenda is the development of a professional civil service. This article considers whether civil service reforms to date and those envisaged under the new plan offer a trajectory to the 2050 stated goal. It finds that despite significant political endorsement at the highest level, reforms have focused on institutional, structural and legal changes without the necessary attention to how these will impact on the quality of public services provision. The article highlights the interdependence between civil service reforms and an outcomes-based approach and adapts the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Better Life framework for Kazakhstan as a way of making this connection. Points for practitioners Moving to an outcomes-based approach in a developing country challenges practitioners to focus on the impact of their work and to be judicious and context-specific in the selection of results indicators.

Civil Service Reform in Transition: A Case Study of Russia

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Inkina
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
The Impact

Public administrative and civil service reforms have widely been used as a popular strategy to bring about systemic changes in entrenched bureaucracies. The general tendency that occurred in Post-Communist states was to adopt comprehensive policy measures dealing with the efficiency and effectiveness of state apparatus. This paper examines the process of an attempted civil service reform in Russia starting from the first term of Putin's Presidency. Based upon interviews with experts and senior public officials, it elaborates on the role of leadership, or the willingness of the national political elite to improve the system of public administration; the impact of path-dependency upon the course of institutional transformation; and finally, the role of reform strategy in the policy implementation process. The article concludes that the case of civil service reform in Russia may be explained by a combination of policy-making variables listed above. In addition, it highlights the transformation of the Russian policy-making system during the years of political centralization. Full text available at: https://doi.org/10.22215/rera.v8i1.222  

scholarly journals Civil Service Reform in Transition: A Case Study of Russia

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Inkina
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
The Impact

Public administrative and civil service reforms have widely been used as a popular strategy to bring about systemic changes in entrenched bureaucracies. The general tendency that occurred in Post-Communist states was to adopt comprehensive policy measures dealing with the efficiency and effectiveness of state apparatus. This paper examines the process of an attempted civil service reform in Russia starting from the first term of Putin's Presidency. Based upon interviews with experts and senior public officials, it elaborates on the role of leadership, or the willingness of the national political elite to improve the system of public administration; the impact of path-dependency upon the course of institutional transformation; and finally, the role of reform strategy in the policy implementation process. The article concludes that the case of civil service reform in Russia may be explained by a combination of policy-making variables listed above. In addition, it highlights the transformation of the Russian policy-making system during the years of political centralization.

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