Lithuanian civil service reform in the process of Europeanisation

The article investigates the interrelationship between Lithuanian civil service reform initiatives and administrative Europeanisation processes by identifying the role and approaches of Lithuanian parliamentary elites in the process of the implementation of reforms during the period of membership in the EU. The research was based on the qualitative content analysis of primary sources, the records of the Lithuanian Government activities, and the qualitative analysis of the secondary sources including research literature and other documents and records, semi-structured qualitative interview. Research gives an opportunity to estimate the level of institutionalisation of pro-European values amongst parliamentary elites and their contributions to the implementation of administrative Europeanisation. According to the research findings, administrative Europeanisation agenda is not a priority for Lithuanian parliamentary elites per se, however, pro-European attitudes are fixed.

Coping with Digital Divide in Governance: A Nepalese Perspective of Civil Service Reform

There is a growing trend for governments across the world, in order to improve the efficiency of their services to offer to their constituents to implement digital devices in the process of the governance process. The so-called ‘e-services’ include a number of essential measures for civil service institutions to create and manage information, technology, and communication.Current work discusses the effectiveness of e-services as well as challenges implementing said services and suggests ways to overcome the possibility of creating a digital divide via such services. The case study relied on content analysis and a survey approach to generate data.This study proposed that the omnipresent nature of the internet, as well as the dynamic use of digital devices, has the potential to mobilize the public service and aid digital beginners in its considerable capacity to access government services.The general conclusion of this study is that e-government services are crucial for managing future problems as well as appropriately reacting to present and past instances to be able to lessen the digital divide.With regard to the reduction of current and future inefficiencies, the cases of effectiveness, and the costs associated with potential outcomes fully support our findings.We propose that certain issues in relation to e-services can be regulatory, legal, technical as well as certain procedural measures. Another aspect is the civil service personnel's education in relation to said technology, as well as capacity building and continuous upgrading of the digital internet technology available to government officers and the general public.Additionally, civil service reform in Nepal with the possibility of the digitization of documents and capacity building is of great concern.

What It Takes to Clean Up Corruption

This chapter reviews four methods for cleaning up corruption and bureaucracy. The first method is cutting off funds to the offices of corrupt bureaucrats. The problem is, if the honest functionaries could not do anything with the old budget, they will be able to do even less with the new budget. Thus, technical demoralization gets worse. Second is the old Max Weber solution of imposing formal rational-technical bureaucracy, but this is very easy to undercut. Meanwhile, the third method is creating brand-new departments of young, idealistic uncorrupted officials. Fourth is civil service reform, which applies the Max Weber solution to every office in the government and requires massive economic growth.

Managers' Productivity and Recruitment in the Public Sector: The Case of School Principals

We study whether differences in management can explain variation in productivity and how more effective managers can be recruited in absence of high-powered incentives. To investigate this, we first extend the canonical teacher value-added model to account for school principals, and we document substantial variation in their ability to improve students’ learning. Teachers’ survey responses and quasi-experimental designs based on changes in school management validate our measure of principal effectiveness. Then, we leverage the timing of adoption of a civil service reform and show that despite having relatively rigid wages, public schools were able to attract more effective managers after increasing the competitiveness and transparency of their personnel selection process.

MOTIVATION OF CIVIL SERVICE IN UKRAINE

The article is devoted to the actual issues of the civil service reform in the direction of motivating the civil service, where a personal interest of a public servant is the key to the success of execution of the government tasks that are necessary to perform state functions at the appropriate professional level. An analysis of the existing features of the motivation of the civil service, which are determined in accordance with current regulations in Ukraine, was performed. The possibilities of improving the modern civil service as part of effective public administration by forming effective proposals, which are based on the analysis of the experience of European countries, were identified. The analysis of the legislative and regulatory framework in the field of civil service revealed problematic issues regarding the unequal of the financial remuneration of employees. The current state of ensuring the remuneration of civil servants was assessed. The formation of the salary of employees with mandatory and incentive payments in relation to the minimum wage in the country as of December 2020 was analyzed. Intangible motivations, such as positive honors (awards) for achievements in the professional activity of civil servants, offering remote work, and encouraging employees with corporate culture, which can be used by the head of the civil service office to create a favorable positive atmosphere. Contrary, in certain situations in a public body, negative incentives, e.g. punishment for improper performance of duties or inaction, were investigated. The peculiarities of the motivation of the civil service in Ukraine were identified taking into account experience of France in building a career matrix for the promotion of civil servants in public administration. Shortcomings in the practical components of the application of motivation in working with staff are partially revealed. The directions of reforming and methodical approaches of the civil service in terms of motivation were suggested. The ways of solving and improving the mechanisms of realization of the state policy in the sphere of civil service, namely the improvement of the system of motivation of civil servants were offered. The practical components of motivation were revealed, new mechanisms for improving the implementation of civil service reform were proposed.