Central civil service management structures as brokers of de-politicization and evidence based civil service management: A typology

• Authors: Ľudmila Staňová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article provides a methodological tool for studying central civil service management structures (CCSMS) and their role in de-politicizing the civil service, thereby contributing to evidence-based civil service management. This tool can be used in comparative studies of CCSMS across, but also within countries, since civil service management functions are often split between several central organizations in one country. The comparative study of CCSMS is particularly useful for contemporary policy makers in EU member states, who currently face the challenge of reforming civil service systems due to EU pressure. There is therefore an urgent need to establish which type of central structure would effectively support the EU’s favored values of professionalizing and de-politicizing the civil service. Stemming from theory on organizational autonomy, our typology focuses on two key dimensions of the CCSMS that support these values: decision-making autonomy over individual civil servants and structural accountability.

Keywords

EN

civil service; organizational autonomy; decision-making autonomy; central structures; civil service management

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 307-324

Dates

published

2014-07-01

online

2014-06-26

Contributors

author

Ľudmila Staňová

• Comenius University in Bratislava

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s13374-014-0229-6