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Project RO 0006.18.02.04
TRAINING OF THE LOCAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS AND PROJECT CYCLE
MANAGEMENT September 2002-2003 FINAL CONFERENCE
Session 1 Bucharest, September 26 2003
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Project RO 0006.18.02.04 TRAINING OF THE LOCAL
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Integrated Human Resource Management in the
Romanian Civil Service
Current Environment Employer of Choice Job
Satisfaction Characterisation of
HRM-Policies Developing Civil Service Leaders for
the Future Performance-Oriented HRM
Activities Our Project
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Current Environment
Competition has increased Customers/Clients have
growing demands
continuous change as organisations have to adapt
to constantly changing demands
need for an organisational structure with more
individual worker autonomy
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Employer of Choice

• Problems identified by Governments for the Civil
  Service
• critical skills shortage
• recruitment

• Reasons for the Problems
• low level of wages

salaries are important when retaining qualified
staff or competing for new staff
2) negative image of civil service
is deemed dull, bureaucratic and old fashioned
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Employer of Choice

• Solution
• creating better working conditions
• e.g. by non-material incentive systems or
  active programmes of staff development

Integrated HRM
2) enhancing HR mobility between private and
public sectors
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Job Satisfaction in the Civil Service

tasks
organisation management
overall
pay
workload
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Characterisation of HRM-Policies

• long-term focus and strategic orientation
• orientation towards employee commitment
• stimulate self-control of employees
• being based on trust
• being based on an organic organisational
  structure
• optimal use of employee capabilities

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Developing Civil Service Leaders for the Future

• Role of Leaders
• transmit new values
• mediate differences
• create coalitions
• Leadership plays an important role in the
  implementation of reform because it involves two
  of the most important aspects of reform

change and people.
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Developing Civil Service Leaders for the Future

• How to Develop Future Leaders
• identify potential leaders
• encourage mentoring and training
• allocate more of senior staffs time on
  developing leaders
• link incentives with performance

support a specialised institution for leadership
development
organise and maintain networks among themselves
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Performance-Oriented HRM Activities

• Performance is Equivalent to the 3 Es
• economy
• efficiency
• effectiveness

• Management Activities and Instruments
• communicating the mission and the corporate
  identity
• active leadership
• time measurement
• feedback activities

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Performance-Oriented HRM Activities

• Requirements
• adequate job placement
• stimulating leadership behaviour of senior staff
• performance-based reviewing of task-fulfilment
  (e.g. feedback)
• promotion and career development
• stimulating incentive systems

work conditions and environment
leadership behaviour
attractive career development perspectives
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Project RO 0006.18.02.04 TRAINING OF THE LOCAL
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Framework for the Project

• Prepare Romania for EU Accession
• Support the integration in various ways
• Strengthen the ability of Romania to
  assume the obligations for membership
• Contribute to the economic development
  in Romania

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Broad Aim of the Project

• Support and facilitate Romanias accession
  preparation through strengthening and developing
  the capability of local administrative bodies to
  implement and manage European policies and
  programs

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Objectives for the Project

• To increase the awareness and
  knowledge of EU institutions, policies and
  enlargement
• To increase the local civil servants
  capacity and competence in managing EU funded
  projects, and to assure sustainability of the
  local initiatives

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Component A - Achievements

• Training of 66 Romanian trainers
  (versus 35 in TOR)

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Component B - Achievements

• Training of 340 (versus 300 in TOR) civil
  servants in the local administration

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Component B Overall Evaluation of Training
Seminars Overall impression of the training
seminars (sample 340)
90
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Component B Overall Evaluation of Training
Seminars The degree of satisfication with
transferable acquired knowledge and competences
in EU Affairs (sample 340)
85
proiect
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Component B Overall Evaluation of Training
Seminars The degree of satisfication with
transferable acquired knowledge and competences
in PCM (sample 340)
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Component B Overall Evaluation of Training
Seminars The extent that the training will help
in preparing comprehensive project proposals for
funding (sample 340)
80
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Component C - Achievements

• Training strategy, structured interviews 90
  people, group interviews with 100 trainees

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Programare

• The Products of the Project
• Best-Practice
• Recommendations

Identificare
Evaluare
Formulare
Implementare
Finantare
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The Products of the Project
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A team of 16 Romanian trainers prepared to
deliver training in EU Affairs and PCM at high
quality standards (www.ier.ro)
An amount of 340 local civil servants trained in
EU Affairs and PCM
A comprehensive training materials package both
for trainers and trainees use
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The Products of the Project
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One PCM manual for the use of people already
acquainted with the basic terms and techniques
A set of brochures on the most important
community policies
The Strategy for training local administration in
EU Affairs and PCM for the period 2004 - 2007
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Best-Practice Recommendations
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• This is the first country-wide oriented training
  project for local administration
• has tested an integrated training model
• testing has been performed by continuous
  monitoring, evaluation and adjusting of
• training techniques
• the relevance of examples, cases and group
  -exercises as against real problems met by
  trainees as well as the conceptual framework

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Best-Practice Recommendations
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• Recruiting, Training and coaching of trainers

• The goal and the objectives of the seminar known
  and assumed both by the trainers and trainees

• The integration of the two topics EU Affairs
  and PCM with the objectives of pre-accession
  process

• Participative, interactive, dynamic, and
  practical-oriented training approach

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Best-Practice Recommendations
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• Mixed-teams of Romanian and international
  trainers, consolidated and interactive

• Comprehensive training support handouts

• Coaching for practical activity at the work-place

• Using indicators of achivement relevant for the
• objectives of learning

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STRATEGIC HRM and Training of Trainers

• Introduction
• Importance of human resource management
• The four necessary prerequisites for SHRM are
• What is SHRM?
• The objective of this paper
• Transition accession
• State of HRM in the Romanian public sector
• Steps taken for implementation of the project
• The emphasis
• Verifiable (transferable) competencies
  (Indicators)
• Strategic HR Training an Development

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IMPORTANCE OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
The notion surrounding the importance of HR in
its distinctive sense derives from the view that
people management is the key source for ensuring
a sustained competitive advantage
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WHAT IS SHRM?
Strategic human resources management (SHRM) is
essentially based on the premise that
organisation and its people form the most
essential component of the strategy, thus their
training and development to achieve competitive
performance become crucial (Analoui,2002, p. 20)
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THE FOUR NECESSARY PREREQUISITES FOR SHRM ARE

• Human's capability and commitment
• Strategic importance of human resources
• Training and developing human resources
• Integration of HRM (Accession)

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TRANSITION ACCESSION

• TRADITIONAL EMPHASIS (PM) ON
• Task (Internal)
• Short term, Ad hoc, Mechanistic
• VS
• INTEGRATED APPROACH (SHRM) EMPHASIS ON
• Task (Internal and External),
• People, and
• Self (regulation and management)

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STATE OF HRM IN THE ROMANIAN PUBLIC SECTOR

• TRADITONAL PHILOSOPHY OF MANAGING HR
• Personnel Not SHRM
• Ad hoc NOT Holistic
• Solely Task-related Attitude Not Integrated
• Compliance NOT Commitment
• External Control NOT Self -regulation
• More of Theory X Less of Theory Y
• Training for Improvement Not Sustainable
  Change
• Low Emphasis NOT high Emphasis on Transfer.
• No Link with Organisation Strategy Accession
  
• Low Maintenance and Sustainable

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STEPS TAKEN FOR IMPLEMENTION OF THE PROJECT

• Preparation of list of potential trainers
• Invitation for submission of applications
• Evaluation of applications
• Selection of candidates for interviews
• Interviews with pre-selected trainers
• Final selection of trainers
• Preparation of materials and programmes
• Training on modern (integrated) training and
  
• development
• methods and techniques
• Training on general EU Affairs
• Training on PCM

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THE EMPHASIS...
Advanced Modern Integrative Training and
Development Becoming change
agent Project Cycle Management EU
Affairs Acquisition of knowledge, skills
(Competencies)
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VERIFIABLE (TRANSFERABLE) COMPETENCIES ...

• 150PREPARED PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR FUNDING IN
  VARIOUS FIELD SUCH AS
• infrastructure
• education, and
• agriculture, and so on

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Project RO 0006.18.02.04 TRAINING OF THE LOCAL
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TRAINING IN EU AFFAIRS AND PCM AT LOCAL LEVEL
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TRAINING TO ROMANIAN LOCAL CIVIL SERVANTS
EU AFFAIRS
PCM
EU/Romania strategies and policies
Tools to elaborate projects
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TRAINING METHOD
RELEVANCE
EFFECTIVENESS
SUSTAINABILITY
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TRAINING METHOD
Participation and interaction
Integration of concepts and practice
Active co-operation between Romanian and
international trainers
Tailor-made training material
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Participation and interaction
Two-way interaction
Group work
Local administration (work place)
Training room
TRANSFER
Knowledge in EU and PCM Working methods New
attitudes
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Integration of concepts and practice...
National Gov
ROMANIA DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Citizens
EU POLICIES
EU INSTITUTIONS
Interest Groups
Programmes (PHARE, SAPARD, ISPA,
..) OPPORTUNITIES
Local Adm.
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...integration of concepts and practice
Learning of
Development of
Learning how to formulate
Practical cases (problematic situations coming
from Romanian local context )
PCM concepts tools
Project Proposals

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Active co-operation between Romanian and
international trainers
Training of trainers
Training at local level

• Training subjects contextualised to the Romanian
  environment
• Communication facilitated with local trainees
• Experience transmitted from other countries

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Tailor-made training material

• EU Affairs general knowledge
• Map of Opportunities
• PCM Manual

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RELEVANCE
Training Programme
Actual needs of target group
Future
Programme oriented PCM Cost-benefit
analysis Participatory Methods Financial analysis
Training Strategy
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EFFECTIVENESS...
levels of local administration hierarchic
positions and functions performed previous
experience and knowledge level of personal
interest and motivation
heterogeneous target group
Tuning of the training programme
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...EFFECTIVENESS
Increased subject knowledge
Increased capacity to work in co-operative and
participatory way
Creation of links between the participants
Acquired capacity to elaborate project proposals
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SUSTAINABILITY

• Ownership by the beneficiaries
• Institutional and management capacity
• Follow up activities further training and
• updating training documentation

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Institutional and management capacity

• More emphasis to be placed on
• team work issues
• awareness of decision-makers
• competent human resources
• availability of information and technical
  equipment

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Follow-up and complementary activities

• further training and development awareness of
  PCM
• availability and updating of the training
  documentation

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EVALUATION TRAINING COMPLETION PROJECTS
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• OBSERVATIONS
• positive
• willingness to apply knowledge and abilities,
• great diversity of the approached problems,
• good understanding of the EU policies,
• use of all EU financing opportunities
• assuming the responsibilities in project
  preparation
• .need attention
• Certain PCM instruments more difficult to
  integrate,
• Consolidation of knowledge, abilities and
  attitudes in real situations,
• Coaching at the work place
• Logistical support at the work place (PC,
  internet acces)

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• RECOMMENDATIONS
• EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
• Continuous information, internet access,
  relations with the regional agencies,
  institutional dissemination of information (team)
• PROJECT CYCLE MANAGEMENT
• Advanced course, coaching at the work place
• Development of complementary skills, like dealing
  with the stakeholders (identification, analysis,
  facilitating dialogue)
• ETHICS
• Internal rules for the project applications/
  CONFIDENTIALITY

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TRAINING STRATEGY
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Introduction

• Strategy as part of the Project
• HRD context
• Principles and the research process
• Findings
• Addressing the Needs
• Implementation
• Conclusions

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Relates to Absorption of EU funds

• Overall Aim
• to contribute to Romanias preparation for EU
  accession in 2007

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• Specific Objectives
• provide a coherent training plan to develop
  knowledge and skills of local public
  administration civil servants
• develop training skills of Romanian experts to
  establish a network of competent trainers

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Fundamental Principles Based on an HRD approach
to improve PERFORMANCE in the WORKPLACE

• Transfer of Learning
• Beyond the mere provision of instruction
• Application of learning in the workplace

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TRAINING NEEDS RESEARCH
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Key target groups

• LPA institutions
• Regional development agencies
• The group of 340 trainees

Scope of the research
To identify specific training needs To examine
environment conditions facilitating transfer
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Multifaceted research approach

• Structured interviews
• Group interviews
• Trainee evaluations/ TNA Question sheets
• Structured trainer reports
• Desk Research

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Future desired state

• Training needs
• Core
• Non core

• Target groups
• LPA civil servants in
• Communes,
• Towns
• Municipalities
• County councils
• Prefectures
• Other bodies involved in LPA projects activities

Current state
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• Findings 1 Current level of knowledge and skill
• County level varied levels of competences
• Large town varied levels of competences
• Commune/small town low

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• Findings 2 Duplication and lack of co-ordination
• Unco-ordinated project based training can lead
  to less than optimal targeting and duplication

• Findings 3 Differing levels of Quality
• Unco-ordinated project based training leads to
  use of different quality training material and
  method

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Findings 4 Decision Maker Awareness Variety of
levels of awareness amongst decision makers from
Commune to County level
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• Findings 5 Work Environment Issues
• Management Skills
• Staff planning for raising competence / skills
• Coaching of staff
• Team building

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• Findings 6 Work Environment Issues
• The role of Human Resource Management
• Performance management
• Training
• Career development

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• Findings 7 Work Environment Issues
• Team working
• Within Institutions across department
  boundaries
• Between institutions and other relevant bodies

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TRAINING STRATEGY

• Addressing the Needs
• Two levels - core and non-core needs
• Modular complementary learning blocks
• Templates - allow tailoring the training design
• thereby forming a Training Programme

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TRAINING STRATEGY

• Training Programme - Courses Overview
• EU Affairs / PCM - foundation level
• EU Affairs / PCM - applied to specific needs
• Project Management
• Participation and Partnerships
• Cost Benefit Analysis
• Strategic / Regional planning
• Awareness Training Seminars

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TRAINING STRATEGY

• Training of Trainers
• Training of Trainers - methods, skills
• Training of Trainers - applied to PCM / EU
• Coaching skills for trainers
• Teach TOT skills

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TRAINING STRATEGY

• Programme Implementation
• Programme management means
• Coordinate with the target group
• Establish and manage training providers
• Provide coherent training material
• Maintain quality assurance and certification
• Find external funding
• Provide effective monitoring and evaluation
• Adapt and develop training modules

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Training Strategy for the Local Public
Administration

• This is needed during the pre-accession period
• missing structured approach of training public
  administration in relation to pre-accession
  process

• It is reliable
• substantiated and verified

• It is flexible
• allows horizontal vertical development

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Training Strategy for LPA (2004-2007)
recommends implementation by a central
authority, which will take ownership of it and
put it into effect
it is of critical importance that a combined and
coordinated approach is adopted between key
partners involved in public administration and
the provision of training