The Changes and Challenges in Personnel Management in Public Organization

Abstract

The article deals with the problems of personnel management in public sector in Lithuania. In the process of
the administrative reform public organizations seek to apply their human potential to rapidly developing marked of
social services, to the civil society needs as well as to the global changes in communicating. This is the crucial time for
public sector in Lithuania, where the service institutions still are stayng regorous, linked to beurocracy, structured in
complicated way. The factors of progress - how public servicing organizations are consolidated, innovative and open
to the needs of customers. The most important demensions towards modernising the public organizations are facilitative
leadership, team-building, effective procedures of motivating, decision making, sharing responsibilities, the
incentives to lifelong learning and innovations.
The publication is based on observations and data indicating the changes, which take place nowdays in Lithuania.