LE VERT, Dominique
Le statut des fonctionnaires et la modernisation de la fonction publique : vrais enjeux et faux débats - Paris : IIAP, janv./mars 1989
The current debate on "civil service regulations" is not free from ambiguities and conceals some of the real issues involved in the modernization of the civil service. The civil service regulations are wrongly blamed for most of the rigidities and constraints dogging staff management: excessive reliance on seniority, insufficiently individualized pay scales, absurdity of the staff report system, impossibility of penalizing poor performance, the postings and transfers system. The causes should be sought in the way the large organizations are run and in the heavy burden imposed by budget constraints. The civil service regulations offer in themselves an extremely wide, and unused, margin for maneuvre. Their abolishment or amendment should, therefore, not be made into a precondition for much-needed modernization of the civil service
Le statut des fonctionnaires et la modernisation de la fonction publique : vrais enjeux et faux débats - Paris : IIAP, janv./mars 1989
The current debate on "civil service regulations" is not free from ambiguities and conceals some of the real issues involved in the modernization of the civil service. The civil service regulations are wrongly blamed for most of the rigidities and constraints dogging staff management: excessive reliance on seniority, insufficiently individualized pay scales, absurdity of the staff report system, impossibility of penalizing poor performance, the postings and transfers system. The causes should be sought in the way the large organizations are run and in the heavy burden imposed by budget constraints. The civil service regulations offer in themselves an extremely wide, and unused, margin for maneuvre. Their abolishment or amendment should, therefore, not be made into a precondition for much-needed modernization of the civil service
