Italie. La modernisation de la fonction publique

Abstract

<i>Italy. Modernization of the Civil Service </i> The reforms of the 1980s resulted in the increasing use of collective bargaining, the introduction of “professional profiles” in career planning and an effort to standardize civil service management methods as well as controlling such management costs. An assessment of the implementation of these reforms revealed that certain objectives were not attained : improvement in job efficiency, improvement in responsibility of civil servants, cost control. The more recent measures tend to corne doser to private sector management methods ; they also tend to encourage productivity and make top civil servants into self-reliant and responsible managers.