The Changing Content and Forms of State Civil Service Training and Education

Abstract

The changing of content and forms of civil service training and education in the public sector is analysed in the article.
In the modern society, the role of the public institution staff in the planning and implementation of the strategic activities
of the institutions has increased dramatically. The personnel management content of „putting out the fires“ no longer meets
the needs of the modern organization. The development of the capacities of civil servants is one of the directions in state
administrative reform as well as one of the main conditions for effective public sector activities.
It is possible to say that the existing training of civil servants in Lithuania is more extensive, based on personal
motivation. However the latter does not always coincide with institutional interests. The largest obstacle in effective civil
servants training is insufficient capacity of the institutional personnel system of public administration. Although personnel
units carry out the analysis of the needs of qualification training the functions of training process and career planning are
implemented insufficiently. The staff of personnel management boards in state and municipal institutions is not adequate,
and unable to carry mentioned functions while existing public administration institutions cannot administrate the processes
of qualification assurance properly.