Priority areas for the effective functioning of the public service in Ukraine Cover Image

Пріоритетні напрями забезпечення ефективного функціонування публічної служби в України
Priority areas for the effective functioning of the public service in Ukraine

Author(s): Y. Bytyak
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Національний юридичний університет імені Ярослава Мудрого
Keywords: public service; staffing; passage of public service; management standards

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the priority areas to ensure the efficiency of the publicservice in Ukraine.One of the crucial problems of improving the state-government institutions isto develop effective human resources, creating a perfect mechanism for the civilservice.Analysis publications, the views of representatives of public authorities tostudy the problem of the legal framework on public service show that this issue isoften discussed and considered in political circles, public authorities at variousforums. The government is trying to take into account existing scientific observationslawyers, politicians on the public service. The permanent discussion in society andthe competent authorities to pass the revised legislation in this area.Without the proper implementation of laws and their implementation all ourlegislative activity will have no meaning. Irresponsible lawmaking as failure, not oflaws in life create extremely dangerous situation for the functioning of the state,society, each individual citizen. Preparation deliberately imperfect laws nothing butunnecessary costs of public funds not only money, if not otherwise. This provides thebasis for distrust of the law in general, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which takes suchlaws, professional parliamentarians to the whole legislative system.By the end remain unresolved problem of increasing the prestige of the civilservice, civil servants to reduce dependence on the political situation in the country,ordering system management (recruitment procedure, competitions, evaluating thequality of employees, career planning, etc.) to overcome the lack of professionalismand legal culture officials failings of training. Also seems important to state, everystate agency, its structural unit should have a clear idea of the size of some experts interm of development to prepare them for certain professions.Only recently a gradual shift obtained the relationship between the publicservice and local government, introduction of new technologies of personnelmanagement in the public service. However, the most important issues only declaredin the policy documents and remain.From our point of view, in the reform of the legal framework of public servicemust use a systematic approach, consider public service as a tool for effectivemanagement activities. This causes the main objectives of public service in thecountry, including the basic principles is to achieve stability and integrity, ensuringthe effectiveness of government agencies, further democratization ways of formationand activities of government, the creation of social, legal and other conditionsnecessary for effective service.Improving the functioning of the legal principles of public service requires aclear legal definition of the fundamental provisions of the Civil Service, its place inthe system of governance, mechanisms unification of certain positions given thecontent of the employee and its impact on the final decision of official responsibility,procedure and conditions for the transfer of civil servants one state agency to another,and to strengthen the social security of civil servants, including in the event ofdismissal of reasons beyond their control.Given the common task to perform public service, we believe that currentreform priorities and improve its legal framework should be:1. Introduction of effective mechanisms, standards and procedures forpersonnel management in the public service.2. One aspect of improving civil service associated with the introduction of aneffective mechanism, standards and procedures for personnel management is thedevelopment of the senior civil service.3. Introducing competitive selection exclusively for civil service positions inall categories.4. Increasing the capacity of the civil service.5. Quite closely to the problems of improving public service related to issues ofconflict of interests and transparency of income and expenditure of public servants.6. It makes sense in our opinion is the conversion of units to work with staff instate-government agencies to "service personnel".7. Equally important is the introduction of objective criteria for assessing thepublic sector.8. Another important dimension of public service should be the introduction ofsoftware and analytical approach to staff development, including career planning andcreation of personnel reserve.An important area of public service in Ukraine has also become construction ofan effective system of training of civil servants.The solution to the above organizational problems of the civil servicedeficiencies regarding the content and completeness of legal regulation will create notonly effective system of civil servants working in the country, but also to the nextlevel of government in general.

  • Issue Year: 1/2015
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 18-18
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Ukrainian