Crnogorska uprava : Organigram haosa?
Montenegrin administration: Organization chart of chaos?

Author(s): Milena Milošević
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Governance, Public Administration
Published by: Institut alternativa
Keywords: public administration; organizational reform; workforce planning; political influence; institutional restructuring; Montenegro
Summary/Abstract: This study deals with frequent reorganisations of Montenegrin public administration in relation to the country’s stated objective: establishment of a more efficient, rational, and flexible administration. The main findings reveal that the decision-makers have too much space for arbitrary and discretionary decisions in adopting new and amending existing acts on the internal organization of public administration bodies, and that these decisions do not follow workforce plans. In the four years since the coming into force of the Law on Civil Servants and State Employees, the Government adopted two workforce plans, both of them in the middle of the calendar year (in 2015 and 2016). That the plans were not adopted at the start of the budget year substantially detracts from their effectiveness. The plan for 2017 was never adopted. At the same time, the Decree on organization and functioning of public administration in Montenegro was amended 14 times in the period between January 2012 and March 2017, which suggests that re-organization is not an exception, but the rule in the Montenegrin public administration.

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