STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. A MILESTONE FOR INTEGRITY BUILDING IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. A MILESTONE FOR INTEGRITY BUILDING IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Summary/Abstract: Public administration is more often than not a much coveted haven that provides safe and secure jobs along with long life employment especially in countries where reform in the field has not been yet undertaken or where it has failed to produce envisaged outcomes. In such cases, bureaucracy and underfunding are the most common malaises impacting the field and generating integrity issues such as nepotism, cronyism, and misappropriation of funds, to mention just few. Additionally, even in countries where reforms have been undertaken and reported successful such as UK and USA, the business oriented approach to public administration in its turn was found to be afflicted by undesirable effects such as difficulties with internal effort coordination and cohesion, as well as “a weakened public ethos within government” (Gerhard Hammerschmid et.al: 2016, 2). The premise underlying this article is that streamlining public bureaucracy and building integrity based frameworks require a strategic management approach at organization level. Consequently, among other initiatives in this respect, strategic human resource management approached from the perspective of governance principles and values may contribute to the transformation of public administration transformation, and hence to allowing efforts in this field to truly become means to ends and not just an end in itself.

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