TEAM MANAGEMENT IN THE CIVIL SERVICE IN THE PRESENT-DAY CHALLENGES AND THREATS

Nataliiа Korchak; Nataliia Larina; Igor Yashutin

doi:10.23856/5418

Nataliiа Korchak Educational and Scientific Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7702-2636
Nataliia Larina Educational and Scientific Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5843-0765
Igor Yashutin Educational and Scientific Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9023-936X

Keywords: civil servants, public authorities, public administration reform, professional competence, team-building approach, socio-psychological readiness.

Abstract

The transformational processes that are taking place in public administration today require new approaches to the public administration process. One of these approaches is the principle of team building in the organisation of managerial and professional activities of civil servants. According to the authors, there is a need to introduce a team-building approach to the functioning of competitive management teams in public authorities. This is due to the complexity of the tasks currently faced by civil servants under martial law in Ukraine and the prospects of transformational changes in public administration in the post-war period, as well as in the context of Ukraine's integration processes into the European community. Such challenges in organising the managerial activities of civil servants need to combine the intellectual and volitional efforts of the authorities to dynamically address various managerial tasks, which cannot be realised without the establishment of target (project) groups; high competition between different authorities requiring them to provide clint-oriented administrative services, increasing the competitiveness of civil servants and the authorities themselves. The article aims to reveal the possibilities of applying the team approach in the managerial activity of public authorities based on a theoretical analysis of the scientific literature and to propose directions for improving the professional activity of civil servants based on team management and virtue. To solve the tasks the authors used theoretical and empirical methods: analysis of the problem based on scientific literature and literature; results of testing, survey of civil servants, content analysis; method of mathematical statistics; GET TEST methodology – to determine the characteristics of competitiveness of management team of civil servants in public authorities. The article justifies practical recommendations to authorities on the application of effective management in public authorities based on team management (team building) and virtue.

References

1. Aliushyna N. (2022). Orhanizatsiya pratsi derzhavnykh sluzhbovtsiv v umovakh voyennoho chasu [Organisation of wartime employment for civil servants]. Publichne upravlinnya ta rehionalʹnyy rozvytok, no. 1 (16), pp. 284–313. [in Ukrainian].
2. Daft R.L. (2001). Menedzhment [Management]. SPb: Pyter, 832 s. [in Russian].
3. Karamushka L. M., Chebatarova O.A. (2002). Sotsialno – psykholohichnyi analiz diialnosti menedzheriv serednoho rivnia upravlinnia ukrainskykh orhanizatsii [A socio-psychological analysis of the performance of middle management level managers in Ukrainian organisations]. Aktualni problemy psykholohii. Tom I: Sotsialna psykholohiia. Psykholohiia upravlinnia. Orhanizatsiina psykholohiia. K. : In-t psykholohii im. H.S. Kostiuka APN Ukrainy, no. 4, pp. 209–216. [in Ukrainian]. 4. Karamushka L.M., Fil O.A. (2004). Formuvannia konkurentnozdatnoi upravlinskoi komandy yak innovatsiinyi napriam upravlinnia osvitnimy orhanizatsiiamy [Building a competitive management team as an innovative way of managing educational institutions]. Osvita i upravlinnia. vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 82–91. [in Ukrainian]. 5. Kovalenko M., Slobodianiuk L. (2002). Koreliatsiinyi analiz sotsialno-psykholohichnykh rolei v upravlinskii komandi [Correlation analysis of socio-psychological roles in a management team]. Psykholohiia i suspilstvo, no. 2, pp. 119–125. [in Ukrainian].
6. Larina N. B. (2020). Komandoutvorennia ta liderstvo v publichnii sluzhbi [Team building and leadership in public service]: opornyi konspekt lektsii dystantsiinoho kursu dlia navchannia zdobuvachiv druhoho (mahisterskoho) rivnia vyshchoi osvity zi spetsialnosti 281 “Publichne upravlinnia ta administruvannia”. Kyiv: NADU. 220 s. [in Ukrainian].
7. Larina N.B. (2022). Teoretychnyi analiz zastosuvannia tymbildynhu yak innovatsiinoho pidkhodu v upravlinni personalom na publichnii sluzhbi [Theoretical analysis of the application of team building as an innovative approach in public service personnel management]. Publichne upravlinnia ta rehionalnyi rozvytok, no. 1 (15), pp. 124–145. Retrieved from: https://pard.mk.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/288 [in Ukrainian].
8. Larina N.B., Kovbasiuk K.V., Kuryliuk A.V. (2021). Zarubizhni tendentsii zastosuvannia tymbildynhu v orhanakh vlady [International trends in the use of team building in government]. Modernizatsiia profesiinoi pidhotovky derzhavnykh sluzhbovtsiv v umovakh hlobalnykh vyklykiv ta suchasnykh zmin v suspilstvi : zb. tez mizhnar. kruhloho stolu (08 lyp. 2021 r.) / redkol. : Olha Andrieieva, Iryna Kryvoruchko, Nataliia Larina ; za zah. red. Larysy Komakhy. Kyiv : Navch.-nauk. in-t publ. upr. ta derzh. sluzhby Kyiv. nats. un-tu imeni Tarasa Shevchenka. 268 s. pp. 88–89. [in Ukrainian].
9. Lozhkin H.V. (2005). Komanda yak kolektyvnyi subiekt spilnoi diialnosti [Team as a collective entity of joint activity]. Sotsialna psykholohiia, no. 6, pp. 52–58. [in Ukrainian].
10. Maksvell Dzh. (2001). Shef y eho komanda [The boss and his team]. Kharkov, OOO “Polyhraf”. 140 s. [in Ukrainian].
11. Rai L. (2002). Razvitiie navykov effektivnoho obshcheniia [Development of effective communication skills. Kharkov. 288 s. [in Ukrainian].
12. Stiv M., Grem U., Eddi N. (2002). V roly lidera uspeshnoi komandy [As the leader of a successful team]: Per. s anhl. Dnepropetrovsk: Balans-Klub. 180 s. [in Ukrainian]
13. Stiuart Dzh. (2001). Trening organizatsyonnykh izmenenii [Organisational change training]. SPb: Pyter. 256 s. [in Russian].
14. Fatkhutdinov R.A. (2002) Konkurentosposobnost organizatsii v usloviiakh krizysa [Competitiveness of an organisation in crisis]: Ekonomika, marketing, menedzhment. M. : Marketing. 892 s. [in Russian].
15. Shchur S. (1999). Metodyka otsinky konkurentospromozhnosti upravlinskoho personalu [Methodology for assessing the competitiveness of managerial staff]. Ukraina: aspekty pratsi, no. 7, pp. 34–37. [in Ukrainian].
16. Klein E. A. (1971). Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. Amsterdam, New York : Elsevier Pub. Co. 845 p. [in English].