Changes proposed to aid civil service
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Oluşturulma Tarihi: Haziran 24, 2009 00:00
ANKARA - Labor Minister Ömer Dinçer is considering two proposals handed to him to reform civil service in the country. One of the proposals involves two tiers of civil servants. One tier will be chosen by the government that takes office but will leave when that government’s term ends.
The country’s civil service system may be set for a radical overhaul, with two blueprints being presented to the labor minister. One envisages dividing the civil service into two branches, one called the "Executive Civil Service," which would see civil servants entering and exiting office along with elected politicians.
Labor Minister Ömer Dinçer is considering two separate projects that both propose radical changes to the public service system, one of the most important elements in the running of the country. Fatih Uğurlu, a parliamentary civil servant and public administration expert, has prepared both of the projects. The first one is to renew the classic public service understanding from the start. The present system for civil servants would be divided into two parts called the "Executive Civil Service" and the "Government civil Service" for the political administration to provide a better service.
The executive civil service will consist of high-level servants such as undersecretaries, deputy undersecretaries, general directors and supreme board members. It is planned that civil servants at this level will come and go along with elected political administrations.
According to this system, the elected administrations will announce which executive public servants they will work with, just like they do with members of the Cabinet. The executive public servants would not hold the right to sue a new administration for being discharged after a new administration is elected.
The second group, titled Government Public Servants, is designed to put a stop to the influences of preferential treatment and partisanship involved in promotions. In this system the only criteria for promotion would be qualification.
Public administrator-training one of the options
The other project being examined by Dinçer is based on systems that have been in use for many years in countries such as Japan, France and England. The system calls for the establishment of a public administrator-training institute. The institute for training public servants for higher positions will accept students among public servants who successfully meet the qualifying criteria. The promotions of civil servants will also be conditional on graduating from the institute, to be known as the KYYE in Turkish.
In the first level of the KYYE, public servants with seven to ten years of service will sit an exam for the positions of branch manager or departmental head. Those who progress will then partake in 3-6 months of KYYE courses. At the second level, branch managers, departmental heads and other officials with enough time served will sit an examination for the positions of general manager or deputy general manager.
Uğurlu summarized the advantages of the system by saying: "The research, planning and coordination experts, undersecretaries and other civil servants on hold would not be unemployed. The most important thing is the elected administrations will have the chance to work with executive civil servants to carry out their programs without being under pressure from administrative jurisdiction."
Labor Minister Ömer Dinçer is considering two separate projects that both propose radical changes to the public service system, one of the most important elements in the running of the country. Fatih Uğurlu, a parliamentary civil servant and public administration expert, has prepared both of the projects. The first one is to renew the classic public service understanding from the start. The present system for civil servants would be divided into two parts called the "Executive Civil Service" and the "Government civil Service" for the political administration to provide a better service.
The executive civil service will consist of high-level servants such as undersecretaries, deputy undersecretaries, general directors and supreme board members. It is planned that civil servants at this level will come and go along with elected political administrations.
According to this system, the elected administrations will announce which executive public servants they will work with, just like they do with members of the Cabinet. The executive public servants would not hold the right to sue a new administration for being discharged after a new administration is elected.
The second group, titled Government Public Servants, is designed to put a stop to the influences of preferential treatment and partisanship involved in promotions. In this system the only criteria for promotion would be qualification.
Public administrator-training one of the options
The other project being examined by Dinçer is based on systems that have been in use for many years in countries such as Japan, France and England. The system calls for the establishment of a public administrator-training institute. The institute for training public servants for higher positions will accept students among public servants who successfully meet the qualifying criteria. The promotions of civil servants will also be conditional on graduating from the institute, to be known as the KYYE in Turkish.
In the first level of the KYYE, public servants with seven to ten years of service will sit an exam for the positions of branch manager or departmental head. Those who progress will then partake in 3-6 months of KYYE courses. At the second level, branch managers, departmental heads and other officials with enough time served will sit an examination for the positions of general manager or deputy general manager.
Uğurlu summarized the advantages of the system by saying: "The research, planning and coordination experts, undersecretaries and other civil servants on hold would not be unemployed. The most important thing is the elected administrations will have the chance to work with executive civil servants to carry out their programs without being under pressure from administrative jurisdiction."