Entry-Level Civil Service Leadership Development Programs : Survey of Selected International Experience

Roseth, Benjamin ; Dahal, Sudyumna

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: SKILLS;    EMPLOYMENT;    COMMUNITIES;    CIVIL SERVANT;    COLLEGE;   

RP-ID  :  98770

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This note presents an overview of several entry-level civil service leadership developmentprograms (ELDP), defined here as a government program – separate from mainstream civilservice recruitment and development mechanisms – that seeks to recruit young professionals,select the best candidates based on merit, develop their skills to meet the business needs ofgovernment ministries and programs while preparing them for leadership in the civil service. Itdraws on experiences from the Unites States, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Liberia. All ofthe programs analyzed cover the national or federal level of government. The remainder of thenote is organized into five sections: (i) Background, which places ELDPs in the broader context of civil service reform; (ii) Advent of ELDPs, which describes the challenges ELDPs weredesigned to address; (iii) Analysis of Programs, which describes the general characteristicstypical to ELDPs; (iv) Country cases, which highlights salient characteristics of each of the four ELDPs analyzed; and (v) Initial thoughts on introducing such programs.