The System of Civil Servants Additional Professional Education: Problems and Solutions

Nowadays the importance of personnel as a resource affecting organizational development is recognized in both public and private sectors. The effective work on human capital is based on the system of their development. By this reason, the educational process of employees, namely their additional professional education as one of the key components of the Human Resource Management is crucial for every organization. The state civil servants’ performance differs from the private sector employees’ as there are some special requirements to the qualification level and skills for those who vested with high level of responsibility and authorities by the state. At the same time, a number of scientists interprets the inability to ensure the effectiveness of these employees consequently the problem requires an early search for its solution. Therefore, the system of additional professional education for civil servants deserves special attention and research. The goal of the final qualifying work is to examine the system of additional professional education for civil servants, as well as its main problems, focusing on two of them - the specifics of the educational programs content and the motivation of civil servants for additional education. The hypothesis of the study, that the majority of educational programs aim to develop professional skills rather than to improve flexible social and personal skills, was proved by document analysis of the best practices and the survey of the Moscow Construction Department civil servants. According to the study results, the existence of other problems, previously identified by scientists in their works, was confirmed in practice. As a result of the final qualifying work, conclusions were drawn about the uncertainty of the best programs content and different attitudes of civil servants to it. The problem of motivation requires solutions, and some of them were noted by the author of the work.