Human Resource Management in Public Service – The Orientation Towards the Managerial Models from the Private Sector or the Displacement of Public Service Ethos?
Human Resource Management in Public Service – The Orientation Towards the Managerial Models from the Private Sector or the Displacement of Public Service Ethos?

Summary/Abstract: The challenge of motivating employees is becoming significant for the Romanian public organizations in the context of the recent changes in the salary system. Using financial incentive systems, generally in the form of merit base promotion and financial rewards, have introduced in the public system the incentives of the market, aiming to lead towards the efficiency and the effectiveness of the private organizations. Those practices are based on the presumption that the labour force in the public and private systems is substantially the same, avoiding the essential differences between the public and private employees. The public servant does not answer only to financial incentives; a variety of nonfinancial motives affect the behavior: trust, sense of duty, altruism or community reputation. The incidence and consistency of financial motivation in time must be attentively correlated with the impact on the organizational performance as well as the ramifications of the public service ethos.

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