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14-March-2014
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Budgeting and Monitoring of Personnel Costs (SIGMA Paper No. 11, 1997)
This publication is the product of a seminar on budgeting and controlling personnel costs which SIGMA organised in March 1996 in Paris. Drawing in particular on the experience of EU Member countries, the seminar enabled participants to compare different types of budgeting and monitoring, their respective advantages and disadvantages, as well as their prerequisites regarding institutions and procedures.
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14-March-2014
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Country Profiles of Civil Service Training Systems (SIGMA Paper No. 12, 1997)
The information contained in this report is essential to the efforts by countries in transition, working in collaboration with the donor community, to develop demand-driven training strategies, efficient structures for civil service training, and cost-effective and sustainable training activities. It is the product of a project which SIGMA started in autumn 1995.
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14-March-2014
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Civil Service Legislation: Checklist on Secondary Legislation (SIGMA Paper No. 14, 1997)
This checklist is intended to supplement the Civil Service Legislation Contents Checklist, SIGMA Paper No. 5, 1996. The present checklist deals with matters that can usefully be considered in connection with the secondary instruments that may be needed to implement the Civil Service Act enacted by the Parliament.
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14-March-2014
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Public Service Training Systems in OECD Countries (SIGMA Paper No. 16, 1997)
This short paper is meant to point out the determining components of training systems, and advantages and disadvantages of possible solutions as they were developed in OECD countries, in order to assist countries in central and eastern Europe to set up a sound training system, while avoiding mistakes already experienced in OECD countries.
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13-March-2014
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Promoting Performance and Professionalism in the Public Service (SIGMA Paper No. 21, 1997)
This report is on human resources management practices in the public administrations of four central and eastern European countries: Albania, Estonia, Hungary and Poland. It is based on information from 1996, and its focus is on public personnel management systems, management procedures and management practices and how they either support or hinder professionalism and appropriate conduct.
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28-February-2014
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Conflict-of-Interest Policies and Practices in Nine EU Member States: A Comparative Review (SIGMA Paper No. 36, 2005)
This paper provides descriptive data and an analytical overview of approaches to managing conflicts of interest in the public sector of nine European countries — France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. It also provides some conclusions that are worth taking into account when reforming policies and instruments to improve regulations and practices on conflict of interest.
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12-February-2014
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Political Advisors and Civil Servants in European Countries (SIGMA Paper No. 38, 2007)
While defining appropriate roles for political advisers is a highly relevant topic in most democracies and especially in EU non member States, as well as candidate and CARDS countries today, surprisingly little comparative information exists.
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12-February-2014
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Sustainability of Civil Service Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe Five Years After EU Accession (SIGMA Paper No. 44, 2009)
This paper examines the fate of civil service reforms that Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries undertook to prepare themselves for the EU accession that took place in May 2004 (5th EU enlargement).
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12-February-2014
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Civil Service Professionalisation in the Western Balkans (SIGMA Paper No. 48, 2012)
This report examines the professionalisation of the civil service in seven Western Balkan states: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia , Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia.
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12-June-2009
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Modernising the Civil Service (Francisco Cardona, SIGMA, June 2009)
In many countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the reform and modernisation of their public administrations since the transition began has been likened to the “Europeanisation” of their institutions. Institutional approximation to the EU requires a new body of national legislation substantially in line with EC-law. Read more...