The most important element in modern personnel administration is the central personnel agency which take charge of the management and implementation of the public personnel policies. With such agency a government can establish a efficient civil servic...
The most important element in modern personnel administration is the central personnel agency which take charge of the management and implementation of the public personnel policies. With such agency a government can establish a efficient civil service system.
The main function of the personnel agency is how to mobilize and manage the personnel resources needed in government. But the purpose of merit system was to protect civil servants from the political appointment. So we can understand that the protection function of personnel agency is as important as the management function.
In this paper I studied the contention between the protectionist school and the management school in America through which the U.S Personnel agency had been developed. And also I studied some patterns of personnel agency in the efforts of U.S personnel agency reform movement. And then I analyzed korean central personnel agency to find out some problems. And I tried to establish a development direction of korean personnel agency.
First, I suggested that korean central personnel agency must compromise both the protection function and the management function because both are still important and needed in korea.
Second, korean government need to establish a personnel agency which concentrate on the personnel matters only.
Third, the independent personnel committee is needed to protect merit system from the political abuse.
Fourth, korean government must specialize the functions of the personnel agency.
Fifth, we need a institutional system so that the head of central personnel agency could not be controlled by political leaders or the president's arbitrariness.
But such reform movement of personnel agency is not a matter of structral changes. It must be accomplished with establishment of the real merit system. And more import is the fact that all the people, political leaders and government officers must participate in the efforts to reform the civil service system successfully