Reforms of the Public Sector Management in Albania

Abstract

1. Introduction Our study has been focused on the public management and its object is the issue of reforms in public sector management and their effectiveness in Albania. impetus to this study relates to a series of rapid transformations of the Albanian society after the 90s. Changes at the present time are characterized by dynamism, speed and complexity, so the public sector, central and local governments should agree and operate actively as far as these rapid changes are concerned in the socio-economic context. Recent research in the field of public management brought from different areas, but also from the private sector, place it in its environment and cultural political, and see the role of public manager as an active and motivated agent. In the current conditions of our country when the public administration still needs reconstruction in order to operate successfully in a pluralist democracy which is market-oriented, is particularly important that the reforms in public administration be considered a priority. Immediate goal of administrative reforms plan is to consolidate and protect the democratic institutions. Although many of the radical reforms are too ambitious and represent real risks for many developed countries, the simple task of the public administration to fulfil the needs of political issues is often a challenge in itself. People want the Government and its public administration to act as a social and economic promoter, capable to provide a fair share of opportunities, support resource management and equal access to opportunities. As we are aware, in in order to depoliticize the public administration, it is the law on civil service, but only 2% of the public sector is regulated by it. It would be a great achievement if the entire public sector will be regulated by this law. This is very important for the autonomy of public administration and is also critical for determining the differences between the political and the administrative sphere. During the reforms implementation, there should be considered that the process is in full compliance with the law and the reforms should not cause the qualities loss. So civil service reforms should not politicize the civil service, but build capacities though. 2. Used Methodology Our attention was focused on Reforms in public sector management, and The effectiveness of public administration reforms in Albania, with the entire range of issues it reveals. In arguing that this is an appropriate and well justified choice, we considered as follows: a) Public interest, public institutions and private businesses; b) Existence of previous studies on this subject by management researchers such as monographs, articles, reports, etc. c) These studies gave us the possibility of finding the grey areas that needed further explanation or interpretation, especially when studying the correlation with the Albanian terrain. In this perspective was opened a good research area because of some problems concerning this phenomenon in our country. d) existence of possible sources of information in the Albanian territory. Internally we have enough qualitative and statistical information to study the issues of public sector in Albania. Studying this phenomenon on ground using surveys, interviews and questionnaires, expands the sources of information. To specify better the conceptual and theoretical basis of our paper, we considered the frame of reference, which gave us the opportunity to understand the connection between the concepts, in order to describe better the relation among the factors affecting such kind of situation and explain them better. Searching problem originates from the developments of Albania especially after the 90s, which brought a new dynamic in the Albanian people's lives leading to rapid political, economic and social transformations, new works and standards, which were related to the trend of being integrated in the family of European countries. …