PERSONNEL RESERVE AS A MODERNIZATION MECHANISM OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE IN UKRAINE

Abstract

Today, the country is facing serious social challenges and threats: on the one hand, it is a deep economic crisis caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, on the other hand, it is a full-scale military aggression by the Russian Federation. All this requires substantial resources and mobilization of the forces of the whole society. The military aggression against Ukraine has caused the necessity of urgent transfer of all spheres of social life to work in conditions of martial law. The government authorities of Ukraine have not become an exception. However, modern Ukrainian legislation does not have experience in the legal regulation of civil service during the war, and therefore economic, social and other problems require urgent normalization. The risk to health and the threat to life by hostilities have forced many civil servants to go abroad or to terminate employment immediately. A large number of civil servants have joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to protect our state. Thus, the public administration system has lost its personnel potential for an indefinite period. In modern conditions, the high quality of public administration is a critically important aspect of the state’s competitiveness. One of the foundations of ensuring the high quality of public administration is the recruitment of competent and highly qualified personnel to the civil service, capable of creative solution of the tasks before them. Since the quality of fulfilment of state tasks depends on the professionalism and responsibility of civil servants. The article examines the peculiarities of the restoration of the institution of the personnel reserve of the civil service in modern Ukrainian realities, and analyzes many years of foreign experience on this issue (in particular, the experience of European countries and the USA). On the basis of the analysis of the structural features of the personnel reserve taken from previous researches, a number of conclusions of an applied nature on the directions of focusing tasks on the restoration of the personnel reserve of the civil service were formed. The importance of a systematic approach to the development of the institute of personnel reserve of the civil service was emphasized, and it was also proposed to implement a comprehensive program designed to contribute to the systematic and sustainable development of such an institute. A special focus is directed at the effectiveness of HR-technologies such as career planning, an effective component of the mechanism of which is the personnel reserve tool. The emphasis is on the importance of solving the problem of elite formation in public administration. Particular attention is paid to the importance of work with the personnel reserve in accordance with the approved personal annual plans, which provide for the professionalization of the reservist. The importance of legislative initiatives on the development of public administration, acceleration of the implementation of changes, and adoption of their results is emphasized.