Abstract
The civil servants’ training process plays a key role in developing the public employees’ skills and broadening their vision. The present paper seeks to examine the perception of Employment Agencies’ civil servants regarding the effectiveness of training programs, measured through their impact on the number of projects initiated and implemented under Sectorial Operational Programme for Human Resources Development 2007-2013. The role of training programs in enhancing civil servants’ innovation capacity is also investigated. The methodology consists in an analysis of 253 projects financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) during 2009-2015 and an empirical research using a representative sample of 337 civil servants who attended EU funded training courses in project management. The conclusions of this paper indicated a direct relation between the number of projects developing training courses in ‘project management’ and the number of projects initiated and implemented annually by the territorial Agencies for Employment. Moreover, a positive correlation between the training programs and the innovation capacity of civil servants from County Agencies for Employment was also identified.
Highlights
The civil servants’ training process plays a key role in developing the public employees’ skills and broadening their vision
The methodology consists in an analysis of 253 projects financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) during 2009-2015 and an empirical research using a representative sample of 337 civil servants who attended EU funded training courses in project management
The conclusions of this paper indicated a direct relation between the number of projects developing training courses in ‘project management’ and the number of projects initiated and implemented annually by the territorial Agencies for Employment
Summary
The civil servants’ training process plays a key role in developing the public employees’ skills and broadening their vision. The present paper seeks to examine the perception of Employment Agencies’ civil servants regarding the effectiveness of training programs, measured through their impact on the number of projects initiated and implemented under Sectorial Operational Programme for Human Resources Development 2007-2013. A positive correlation between the training programs and the innovation capacity of civil servants from County Agencies for Employment was identified. It is well-known that civil servants’ competencies are crucial to any public administration. The present paper attempts to analyze the relation between project management training programs and projects’ development and implementation, on the one hand, and the contribution of training in enhancing civil servants’ innovation capacity in the territorial Agencies for Employment, on the other hand. The conclusions of this study could attract the interest of those who deliver training programs to public institutions under Human Capital Operational Program (HCOP) 2014-2020
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