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The article concentrates on the differences in the management of human resources in public administration as compared with well-known commercial organizations. Specialists in administration science concern themselves with such questions as the status of clerk, recruitment, and training on a rather marginal basis. However, a new look at developing principles of professionalization, formalization, and centralization within the framework of personnel strategy is necessary. The result of reform of the public administration system should be the modernization of the personnel status and function in Poland's central and local government administration.