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Civil Service Training and Development:
Assessing the Role and Significance of Higher Civil Service Training in
the LCD's (1990), Administrative Development Agency, Helsinki, Finland,
ISBN952-90-1692-1.
Focus:
The main focuses of the work was to analyse the role
of civil servants and civil service system in the realisation of the
developmental objectives in the developing countries. The study also
focused on: how official objectives are assigned to national civil
service training in general and particularly to the training
institutions responsible for implementing the objectives. It also
focused on how and to what extent the training institutes fulfil
official objectives, and what transformations of these objectives take
place in the implementation, especially at the stages of programme
planning and curriculum design.
Findings:
The book explains that most developing countries have
been focusing on the 'latent' political and administrative restraints
which limit the use of administrative manpower and its training as
direct instruments for developmental purposes. The study shows that when
a society is modernising, the system of civil service becomes more
professional and self-conscious of its own professional position and at
the same time it develops a striving for greater autonomy. This leads to
tensions and latent conflicting relations with both political and
economic decision-makers, but on the other hand, it leads to 'automatic'
modernisation via increased training and socialisation efforts.
The book also suggests that as there is no
universal solutions to institutional or human resource development
problems in the public sectors, yet, the institutional settings must be
prepared and designed firstly, according to the international logic of
the development of public management and national aspiration and
necessities.
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