IMPLEMENTATIOM OF INNOVATIONS IN THE SPHERE OF CIVIL SERVICE: PROBLEMS AND FACTORS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of implementation of innovations in the sphere of civil service in which public management is a core. In this article the authors use the results received during the realization of project № 13-05-0018 supported by the Program “Scientific Foundation NIU VShE” in 2013. Significance of the topic is determined by the fact that civil service in our country is being greatly reformed. According to the intermediate analysis of this reform many difficulties of innovations implementation which public administration confronts with are connected with human and organizational factors, personality directivity of civil servants. Research objective. Research of innovation problems and factors concerning human resources in public management within the civil service reform carried out in Russia. The subject of research is attitude of civil servants to innovations and subjective factors of innovations implementation. Methods of research. During the research the author studied statutory and regulatory papers providing for reformation of the RF civil service, materials concerning the intermediate results analysis of the reforms, psychological approaches to innovations study, readiness for the activity and subjective factors of innovations implementation. Methods of empirical data collection”: methods “Attitude towards innovations”, “Express-methods of social and psychological (organizational) environment evaluation. Results. The authors outline two main directions of innovations concerning human factor in public management: a) staff formation; b) increase of efficiency and effectiveness of civil servants’ performance. It is shown that the main problems of innovations implementation are connected with the level of professional competences, businesslike character and moral values of civil servants, specificity of innovative technologies, peculiarities of structure and organizational culture in the sphere of public management. It determines the necessity to study the problem of innovations implementation on individual, organizational and group-wide levels. Scientific novelty. Using the data of the empirical research the author determines subjective factors of innovative technologies, a role of organizational climate concerning attitude of civil servants to innovations. Practical importance. Results of the research can be useful for staff formation, professional improvement of experts and executives, personnel appraisal programs and determining the ways of further research innovations implementation in public management.