MEETING OF THE DIRECTORS OF INSTITUTES AND
SCHOOLS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (DISPA)
In the context of the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the EU
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
NEW CHALLENGES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION – TRAINING
STRATEGIES
Dr. Norbert KIS
Director-general of Hungarian NIPA
NEW CHALLENGES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION – TRAINING
STRATEGIES
I. About Hungarian NIPA
II. About the major topic of the DISPA meeting in Budapes
III. Training strategies reflecting to challenges of public sector
IV. Strategy of the Hungarian public policies
V. DISPA as driving force of training strategies
DISPA – New challanges in public administration – Training strategies
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
I. ABOUT HUNGARIAN NIPA
History
Ancestors:
• Hungarian Institute of Public Administration Sciences, founded in 1931,
• Institute of Hungarian Public Administration (1998-2006)
• Government Centre for Public Administration and Human Resource Services
(2007 -2010)
The Institute
• is actively involved in the process of rewriting the public administration’s
professional and human resources policies; drawing up, in this capacity, a
professional public administration knowledge base.
• is the methodological and quality management centre responsible for the
organization of professional and leadership training for the Hungarian public
administration and human resources systems.
• is a methodological recruitment and selection centre for public administration
• guarantees a consistent background support for the national and international
public administration development programs.
DISPA – New challanges in public administration – Training strategies
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
I. ABOUT HUNGARIAN NIPA
Knowledge based public administration career
The Institute
• is the development and methodological centre of public administration
training programs
• is the entity responsible for leadership training, leadership excellence
training and training for the further development of leaders.
• is the national centre of examinations for public administration (basics
and special exams)
- is the organizer of the junior public administration training program
(scholarship programs)
DISPA – New challanges in public administration – Training strategies
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
I. ABOUT HUNGARIAN NIPA
Human resource services
The Institute
• supports the design of human resources strategy in public administration
• functions as a recruitment and selection centre
• supports human resources management in public administration by
providing
methodological references
• operates an IT based HR-service system within the central administration
• operates the public administration job portal (www.kozigallas.gov.hu),
which lists more than 3000 civil servants and publishes close to 15 000
public employee applications annually
• coordinates the Hungarian Public Administration Scholarship Program
DISPA – New challanges in public administration – Training strategies
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
I. ABOUT HUNGARIAN NIPA
Major concerns about training system:
• training system has not changed since 1998 – change awareness
• training is not an integral part of the carrier-path
• training services: decentralized, dominantly outsourced to private
companies
• methodology: teaching-oriented, e-learning to be developed
• curricula: unbalanced program structure (soft skill oriented)
• low budget
• formalities of QA system
DISPA – New challanges in public administration – Training strategies
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
II. ABOUT THE MAJOR TOPIC OF BUDAPEST
MEETING OF DISPA
• Challenges in the institutes hosting 2011-2012 DISPA meetings
• Addressing some strategic challenges and issues of training development
For the common planning within DISPA:
• to put the training development in a strategic framework in the
context of the forthcoming EU presidencies
• how to shape the training for the future needs of public
administration?
DISPA is a forum for:
• identifying common set of challenges to be tackled by trainings
• defining common European objectives in training development
• common strategies and joint actions
DISPA – New challanges in public administration – Training strategies
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
II. ABOUT THE MAJOR TOPIC OF BUDAPEST
MEETING OF DISPA
Budapest Meeting
for highlighting the role of training (institutes) in PA strategies and
reforms
Reasons for highlighting the role of training:
• HR management, human capacity building, training – success factors of
PA reforms
• strategies usually under evaluate the training needs of reforms
• trainings are not given financial priority, serious impact of austerity
measures
• legal basis of training duties is often uncertain
DISPA – New challanges in public administration – Training strategies
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
III. TRAINING STRATEGIES REFLECTING TO
CHALLANGES OF PUBLIC SECTOR
New challenges – new strategies
European PAs have been facing similar social and economic challenges
• social dimension - How to become more open and transparent?
• economy dimension - How to deliver increased performance?
• financial dimension - How to perform better with fewer resources?
New Governance
DISPA – New challanges in public administration – Training strategies
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
III. TRAINING STRATEGIES REFLECTING TO
CHALLANGES OF PUBLIC SECTOR
New Governance
• Priority of the Hungarian EU presidency: the economic governance.
• The need for the reorganization, restructuring of the state, on the basis of
the new public policies.
• Reconsidering the traditional ways of governance and public services.
•
“The good State and the good governance” program in Hungary
DISPA – New challanges in public administration – Training strategies
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
III. TRAINING STRATEGIES REFLECTING TO
CHALLANGES OF PUBLIC SECTOR
• Better governance is related to the more effective preparation of PA
• More challenges of PA need more changes which will require more and
more trainings
• Will institutions, curricula and methods of today be appropriate in the
future?
Training institutes: focusing on public sector strategies
• more effective planning and strategy-making
• identifying social, political, economic stakeholders and their future
needs
• building knowledge base for trainings
Teaching public sector challenges and strategies
• what strategies should be taught and how?
DISPA – New challanges in public administration – Training strategies
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
III. TRAINING STRATEGIES REFLECTING TO
CHALLANGES OF PUBLIC SECTOR
Changing mentality – Performance principle
• training for personnel engagement
• training based HR management
• up-dating the curricula
• more creativity
Changes in attitude – partnership with citizens, changing way of service
delivery
Changes in behaviour – new types of conflict of interest
Leadership trainings: - more change demands more leadership
• common standards of competence framework (profile) of PA leadership
• European elements of curricula – leadership development network,
experience-transfer
DISPA – New challanges in public administration – Training strategies
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
III. TRAINING STRATEGIES REFLECTING TO
CHALLANGES OF PUBLIC SECTOR
Changing needs derived from ICT development:
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role of new devices
millennium generation (FACEBOOK generation)
implications for education
differentiated ICT based learning
E-Europe 2020 Programme, inclusive and multi-channel public
administration
• online and PC-based web services.
• m-government and t-government
DISPA – New challanges in public administration – Training strategies
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
IV. STRATEGY OF THE HUNGARIAN PUBLIC
POLICIES
Hungarian strategy and training: Renewing strategy management in the central
government
resource
Process in the present
Planning
Problem
1. are based on unclarified relation of politics and public administration,
2. do not give solutions for the problems, are not based on problems.
Decision-preparing
Decision making
Execution
Problem
Checking
Solution
time
resource
Problem
Planning / Decisionpreparing
Decision making
Execution
Solution
Problem
Checking
Solution
Problem
time
Process in the future: 1. are based on the leadership role of politics and execution role of public administration,
2. are shorter and fucusing on problem solving.
DISPA – New challanges in public administration – Training strategies
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
IV. STRATEGY OF THE HUNGARIAN PUBLIC
POLICIES
New carrier-path in the civil service 2012
• training as tool for recruitment and motivation (individual
development)
• training as a factor of performance assessment
• training as a requirement of advancement
• training as tool of selection and quality-based differentiation
• developing learning competencies through training
DISPA – New challanges in public administration – Training strategies
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
IV. STRATEGY OF THE HUNGARIAN PUBLIC
POLICIES
• Training for civil servants and the Edu &R capacities of public
institutions
• Establishment of a National University of Public Service 2012
• Recruitment of Y-generation
• Training challenges in relation to social structural changes
• for early-retired officers (age 42-62) of the police and defence
sector (placement program)
• for Mobility from the civil service to the Public Administration
DISPA – New challanges in public administration – Training strategies
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
V. DISPA AS DRIVING FORCE OF TRAINING
STRATEGIES
DISPA common understanding and statement shall
• highlight the strategic importance of training of civil servants in the
national and EU strategies
• policy reforms need high quality in civil service
• the responsibility of governments for knowledge building in public
service
• common European Quality standards of Trainings
• legal stability of training system,
• stability in finance
• stability in the infrastructure
• development and innovation
• European knowledge transfer, cooperation of national training systems,
mobility
DISPA – New challanges in public administration – Training strategies
Budapest, 19 – 20 May, 2011
Thank you for your attention!