Priority directions of human resources management improving in the field of public service of Ukraine

Abstract

The article is devoted to the consideration of modernization of public service and human resources management in public authorities and substantiates the priority areas of improvement of human resources management in the field of public service of Ukraine. It is determined that outdated forms, methods and technologies of personnel management and rather slow transition from the clerical model of personnel management to democratic forms and methods of work with personnel remain are retained in the field of public service. It were analyzed the main forms of social and psychological support of human resources management in the field of public service. It is determined that the institutional capacity of personnel management services and their ability to ensure, in most cases, the effective implementation of strategic human resource management functions remains insufficient today. A new organizational structure of the strategic human resources management service in public authorities is proposed, which should include units on human resources management strategy (policy), selection, accounting, adaptation, development, evaluation, motivation, acmeological support, labor relations and salaries of public servants. It is highlighted that such system should be based on the general principles of human resource management in the public service, which determine the content of its elements and the choice of specific tools, instruments, forms, methods and technologies of human resource management. The particular attention was paid to the fact that the proposed approach should be implemented on an updated attitude to the role and place of socio-psychological components in human resource management in the field of public service. It is substantiated that in order to create a professional, politically neutral, honest and effective public service, along with improving the legislative support of human resources management in the public service, it is necessary to develop institutional capacity and ensure consistency in implementing of new principles of an effective state personnel policy.