Potential of Civil Service Training System: Human Resources Development Strategy
POTENTIAL OF CIVIL SERVICE TRAINING SYSTEM: HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Eugenijus Chlivickas, Prof., Dr.
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Training Centre of the Ministry of Finance of Republic of Lithuania Lithuanian Public Administration Training Association
The beginning of the century brought plenty of reforms, changes and novelties into the sphere of public administration. Seeking to solve complicated problems of the country main attention is focused on the increase of the effectiveness and usefulness of the state structures, the stability of the machinery of state, as well the improvement of professionalism and responsibility. Training is closely related to the creation of capacities because its objective, on the one hand, is to create an integrated and properly governed training system of civil servants of central and local governments, and, on the other hand, to implement the idea of the continuity of that system and activity programmes related to it.
Topicality of civil service training. Seeking to achieve efficiency in the sphere of state service, civil service training becomes ever more important due to the following reasons:
- rate of organisational and technical restructuring of the civil service is constantly increasing, and this requires that civil servants should regularly acquire new skills and learn regulations;
- the decrease in the number of civil servants demands that the individuals who have stayed in the public service should acquire more diverse skills; - the process of accession of the Republic of Lithuania to the European Union requires that civil servants should understand the peculiarities of public service functioning not only of their own country but of the European Union as well; - so far the tradition that with the civil servant making his way up, his technical
Eugenijus Chlivickas, Prof., Dr.
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Training Centre of the Ministry of Finance of Republic of Lithuania Lithuanian Public Administration Training Association
The beginning of the century brought plenty of reforms, changes and novelties into the sphere of public administration. Seeking to solve complicated problems of the country main attention is focused on the increase of the effectiveness and usefulness of the state structures, the stability of the machinery of state, as well the improvement of professionalism and responsibility. Training is closely related to the creation of capacities because its objective, on the one hand, is to create an integrated and properly governed training system of civil servants of central and local governments, and, on the other hand, to implement the idea of the continuity of that system and activity programmes related to it.
Topicality of civil service training. Seeking to achieve efficiency in the sphere of state service, civil service training becomes ever more important due to the following reasons:
- rate of organisational and technical restructuring of the civil service is constantly increasing, and this requires that civil servants should regularly acquire new skills and learn regulations;
- the decrease in the number of civil servants demands that the individuals who have stayed in the public service should acquire more diverse skills; - the process of accession of the Republic of Lithuania to the European Union requires that civil servants should understand the peculiarities of public service functioning not only of their own country but of the European Union as well; - so far the tradition that with the civil servant making his way up, his technical