Innovations in Public Service: Perspectives on Civil Service Reform
The research aims to provide the rationale for the need to reform the civil service. Over the past few decades, civil services across the world have been subjected to significant bouts of reform. The reforms have been driven by a number of social, economic and technological developments that have altered the environment within which the government operates. Today, as the pace of change quickens, civil service systems and the civil servants must continue to adapt to the changes. They are supposed to have the right skills, knowledge and capabilities needed to meet the challenges of 21st-century government. The research objectives are to analyze the trends in civil service reform and suggest new promising directions for future civil service reforms. The research methodology is based on the general methods of scientific knowledge. As a result of the study the necessity of reforming the civil service was substantiated. The author proposes the improvement of the labor motivation system as one of the ways to increase the efficiency of activity.