Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 20th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview Civil Service Author(s) Aser Nica National School of Political Studies and Public Administration Bucharest Romania Title Promoting leadership in the Romanian public administration File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Aser Nica Abstract Promoting leadership in the Romanian public administration PhD Student Nica Așer, National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Doctoral School of Administrative Sciences, Bucharest, Romania Abstract In this article our intention is to research the promotion and development of leadership within the Romanian public administration both at present and in the future. In general, Romania and other countries have noticed that there is great discrepancy between how the public sector is perceived nowadays and how the national interest should be seen now or in the future. The Romanian society, however, becomes more diverse and the public institutions are thus more flexible. The new situations require new types of organizers. The leaders involved in the public institutions can help to spread, promotion and maintenance of the new values which are necessary for a successful reform of the public sector. Even if there have been some attempts in these field , Romania has not yet developed a systematic strategy of building-up the leadership as part of the reform process. In contrast to this situation, some industrialized countries have already begun to elaborate such a strategy, and other countries are already using it (for example Great Britain, Germany, etc ). Starting from these premises, I want to analyze the current level of promoting leadership within the Romanian public administration, by conducting a theoretical analysis based on concrete case-studies to reveal the promotion in the present stage. The research methodology is based on an empirical analysis. Thus, in order to be able to reach relevant conclusions, I will apply in my analysis both qualitative and quantitative research methods. In the end, I will try to answer the following questions: to what extent is the modern leadership promoted and implemented in the Romanian public administration and which are the obstacles that impede these processes? These questions arise because we consider that the promoting of modern leadership within the Romanian public sector represents a sine qua non of the reform process for the public administration.
