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MANAGING THE CIVIL SERVICE Roles, Mechanisms and Capacities – Central Capacity and Line Ministries Tatjana Trendafilova , fYR of Macedonia. Workshop on “Building a Professional Civil Service in Kosovo” Pristina, 26-27 June 2008. The government as an employer.
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MANAGING THE CIVIL SERVICERoles, Mechanisms and Capacities – Central Capacity and Line MinistriesTatjana Trendafilova, fYR of Macedonia Workshop on “Building a Professional Civil Service in Kosovo” Pristina, 26-27 June 2008
The government as an employer • Rules and policies for personnel management • Management mechanisms and capacities that ensure uniform application of the personnel rules and policies
Institutional arrangements for regulation and supervision of the personnel management • Central civil service management capacity • Civil Service Commission • Line ministries/agencies
Central civil service management body • part of the government; • deals with general aspects of civil service management: • preparation of civil service legislation; • development of personnel policies; • organisation or monitoring of recruitment; • coordination of HRM; • negotiation with civil service unions on behalf of the government; • organisation and management of training for civil servants.
Central civil service management body • Institutional character: • A ministry • A specific ministry • Ministry of Finance • Ministry of Interior • A “Center of Government” body
Some examples from the EU member countries • Ministry of Public Service and Administrative Reform, Luxembourg; Ministry of Public Administrations, Spain; Ministry of Government Administration and Reform, Norway • Department of Finance, Ireland; Ministry of Finance, Denmark; Ministry of Finance, Finland; • Federal Ministry of Interior, Germany; Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations, the Netherlands; • Ministry for Women, Media and Civil Service in the Federal Chancellery, Austria; • Cabinet Office, U.K.
Independent commissions • Civil Service Commission, U.K. • Commission for Public Service Appointments (CPSA) and Public Appointments Service (PAS), Ireland
Line ministries/agencies Their role in the personnel management depends on the level of centraisation/decentralisation of the civil service system
Civil Service Management in the Western Balkan Countries • Croatia: • Central State Office for Administration • Civil Service Board • Administrative Inspection • Civil Service Tribunal & Higher Civil Service Tribunal • Civil Service Training Centre
Civil Service Management in the Western Balkan Countries • Albania • Department of Public Administration • Civil Service Commission • Training Institute of Public Administration
Civil Service Management in the Western Balkan Countries • Montenegro • Human Resources Management Authority • Appeals Commission • Administrative Inspection
Civil Service Management in the Western Balkan Countries • Serbia • Human Resources Management Service • High Civil Service Council • Appeals Commission
Civil Service Management in the Western Balkan Countries • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Civil Servants Agency X 3 • Administrative inspection
Civil Service Management in the Western Balkan Countries • Macedonia • Civil Servants Agency • Labour Inspection
Problems associated with the management of the civil services in the Balkans • lack of political will for development of a merit-based, professional and politically neutral civil service; • acceptance of central civil service management bodies with “horizontal” functions; • the idea of managing the personnel - HRM tasks are different from what personnel offices (kadrovo) used to do; • low capacities of both central civil service management bodies and the line ministries; • relations with the Ministry of Finance - are the civil servants just numbers and an expenditure item in the budget?
Key challenges in the development of “young” civil services for the central management bodies • safeguard of the merit principle of recruitment and promotion • coordination (of civil service policies, personnel management practices)
Tasks of a central management body and related capacities • development of policies; • drafting of legislation (primary and/or secondary); • organisation of /participation in /or monitoring of the recruitment and selection procedures; • direct or indirect involvement in establishment control; • providing/coordinating training of civil servants; • civil servants registers/databases.