Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 18th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview III. Working Group on Civil Service Author(s) Armenia Androniceanu Bucharest University of Economic Studies Bucharest Romania Armenia Androniceanu, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania Title Major changes and perspectives of the civil servants policies in the Romanian public administration File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract Major changes and perspectives of the Civil Servants Policies in the Romanian Public Administration Armenia Androniceanu, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies The paper contains the main changes in the content of policies for the civil servants during the last years. A special analysis will be developed and the impact of these reforms are presented. The paper includes one of the most relevant instruments used during the reform process, which is The Common Assessment Framework (CAF). CAF is an answer to a critical need of providing an easy to use, non expensive self-assessment instrument, in the programming phase, that could fill in the gap in the common practice of the public administration as a complete evaluation mechanism, having well structured criterion and a clear defined implementation procedure, including the advantages that brings with it, giving the possibility for a future bench learning process. It can increase the degree of awareness and responsibility of all the personnel within an organization in relation with the need for change and continuously improve the activity in the organization. The paper contains a short description of the public administration reform process by CAF implementation, the obstacles and the results obtained.