Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 20th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview Internationalization and Networking of PA Studies Author(s) Eugenijus Chlivickas Training Centre of the Ministry of Finance Vilnius Lithuania Title Internationalization and networking as a key factor for civil servants‘ training system‘s development File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Eugenijus Chlivickas Abstract Seeking to achieve efficiency in the sphere of state service, civil service becomes ever more important due to the following reasons: rate of organizational and technical restructuring of the civil service is constantly increasing, and this requires that civil servants should regularly acquire new skills and learn regulations; comparatively increase of more qualify of civil servants demands that the individuals who have stayed in the public service should acquire more diverse skills; the process of internationalization and networking in the countries of 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 rather than managerial competence is accentuated, has prevailed in the public service of the new member countries of EU. Cases are quite frequent the when high level professionals of a narrow specialization without any abilities for management and unable to efficiently run an office become chiefs; constant pressure of the society on the public service to prove its efficiency by material achievements requires that civil servants should be able to efficiently plan their activity and think strategically. Striving for solution to complex problems in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, the main focus should be laid on improvement of state structures efficiency, government bodies stability and increment of professionalism and accountability of human resources in state institutions. Human resources system is concurrent with establishment of new quality since the aim of the latter is to create an integrated and manageable system of network of central and local government human resources and to ensure expansion of the system as well as action programmes related to it. Internationalization and networking creates relevant conditions for civil servant‘s training system development. Though there is a big number of intelligent and qualified specialists in CEE countries, imperfect legislation as well as training system very often impedes the progress of training and even that of public administration. The main principles of public service, the status of the public servant and legal principles of public service are regulated by public administration legal regulations. As a rule, they include establishment of public servants' training system. Public servants training is one of the means improving public administration and enhancing continuous policy on public service, which aims at ensuring implementation of objectives set to state institutions. However, state long-term developmental priorities, ways of their implementation and human resources system lack concordance. In order to create efficient public service and successfully implement public administration reform, it is necessary systematically improve competence of human resources system through internationalization and networking system, which would enable to better implementation of state governments objectives and priorities.
