PROFESSIONALIZATION OF PUBLIC SERVICE: CONTENT-FUNCTIONAL DOMINANTS AND PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The article provides a theoretical understanding of the professionalization of the public
service as a multidimensional process of developing its human and institutional potential in the context of
modern social changes. It is substantiated that the professionalization of the public service goes beyond
the traditional understanding of professional training and development of civil servants’ competencies,
acquiring the importance of a strategic factor in ensuring the efficiency, capacity and social orientation of
the public administration system. It is proposed to consider the essence of the professionalization of the
public service as an open structured system aimed at developing the principles of continuous professional
education and training of public servants, their permanent acquisition of professional knowledge, skills,
abilities, professional qualities; the formation of a conscious desire for professional development and
career growth; reflective self-organization, self-development and compliance with professional
deontological standards. On this basis, taking into account the anthropological orientation of public
administration and its service orientation, the mission, goal and objectives of the formation and
functioning of the system of professionalization of the public service are specified. The functional
orientation of the system of professionalization of the public service is substantiated, which includes
knowledge-competence, regulatory/normative-legal, goal-setting/prognostic-planning, value-ethical,
motivational-adaptive, talent-oriented, information-communicative, control-evaluation and consultativeadvisory directions. A systematization of the principles of development of professionalization of the public
service is proposed. It is stated that the substantive and functional content of the system of
professionalization of the public service is formed through a set of interrelated dominants, including the
development of professional competencies, the formation of professional culture, the establishment of
public service values, ensuring meritocratic principles of personnel development, supporting professional
motivation and adaptability of employees to new management conditions, etc.