The authors of the article:

Chupina Valentina, professor of state and municipal management chair of the Ural State University of economics

Pleshakova Anastasiia, specialist of International cooperation Department of the Ural State University of Economics

 

Component analysis of the municipal employee professional competence. 

 

Municipal management in modern Russia appeared after acceptance in 1993 of the new Constitution recognizing and guaranteeing local government. The complex challenges which have arisen before municipal management during an era of social and economic transformations in the Russian state, processes of globalization and an entering of Russia in world economic space, generated a number of the contradictions complicating a problem of efficiency of administrative activity in municipalities.

 Difficult interrelations of political, social, economic processes in the state and society created request for managers of new generation, without achievement of high level of professionalism in which work formation of effective system of local government in modern Russia is impossible. Not casually the principle of professionalism and competence of municipal employees was proclaimed as one of fundamental in the organization and functioning of municipal service. Today society expects from municipal serving effective solutions of citizens questions, and meanwhile because of insufficient competence of municipal employees, their professional unfitness to work in the local governments office there are many large mistakes and the miscalculations leading to big material losses, in a fever the society, worsening it morally – the psychological climate, reducing quality of life of the population.

Specifics of the administrative tasks solved by municipal employees, consists that they, on the one hand, as representatives of authorities should know and execute laws and the bylaws defining activity of bodies of municipal management and thus to carry out administrative activity, on the other hand, they should satisfy essential needs of people by means of various managing subjects and, respectively, to be experts in various branches of economy. They should define competently within the specialty the municipal order, make selection of its qualified performers, to carry out control of results of implementation of the municipal order, and the solution of such versatile tasks demands from municipal employees of competences not only of questions of municipal management, but also in the specific areas making subject domain of their management: construction, housing and communal services, trade, etc. In fact it demands from the municipal employee different competences combination.

Now selection on replacement of positions of municipal service is carried out, mainly, on the competences making a profile of specialty «Public and municipal administration» that provides performance by officials, generally all-administrative tasks [5]. Requirements for specific subject domain, as a rule, aren't regulated by normative documents and have minor character.

 This situation creates a problem of definition of structure of competence of the municipal employee as while in a science and administrative practice of Russia principles of personnel policy and reasonable criteria of a complex assessment of officials professionalism level are still insufficiently developed, there is no conceptual basis of modern personnel technologies of professional development and assimilation by municipal employees of professional and ethical values, norms of professional culture [25]. Therefore the appeal to a competence  approach for determination of professionalism of the civil and municipal servants sees one of the directions of reforming of authorities in the Russian Federation, after all the competence  approach as a new paradigm of professional education is characterized by change of subjects of definition of its purpose (the state, the employer, society, the personality) and representation of results of education in competence terms.

Let's define competence of the municipal employee as the property of the personality based on professional administrative values, reflecting readiness and ability of the municipal employee to realization of the integrated set of the general, administrative and special competences united by stable hierarchical, multilevel relations.

Structure of competence the competences understood as readiness and ability of the personality to apply in the professional activity of knowledge, ability make, personal qualities, practical experience.

 First of all in structure of competence allocate, the so-called, general (universal) competences defined still by the Council of Europe in the late nineties and allowing any person, irrespective of a profession, to be the full member of society, to assume responsibility, to participate in joint decision-making, to regulate the conflicts, to be able to live in multicultural information society, to own different types and technologies of communications, to have desire and to realize ability to study all life. In the Federal state educational standard of higher education in the preparation direction «Public and municipal administration» the general competences of municipal employees include common cultural, tool and social and personal [4]:

Besides the general competences of competence structure the professional competences were define  and understood by us as ability to apply knowledge, abilities, practical experience and personal and professional qualities of one of types of professional activity are allocated.

In the Federal state educational standard of higher education in the preparation direction «Public and municipal administration» the professional competences (personal computer) providing, first of all, successful organizational and administrative activity are designated, such type of competence as information and methodical which concerns work questions with office information, applying tool competences (generalization, the analysis, synthesis, modeling, adaptation, introduction, etc.) is allocated.

Also in the Federal state educational standard of higher education in the preparation direction «Public and municipal administration» auxiliary and technological professional competences are allocated.

 The closest attention of researchers among professional competences of officials is caused recently by communicative competence which admits to one of the most important components of their professionalism. This attention is caused by that the profession of the civil and municipal servant is a profession of the group “from person to person” where communication from a factor accompanying activity, turns into professionally significant category necessary for an embodiment of the power. Especially the importance of communicative competence for the municipal employee follows from the public nature of management [9,12].

Information for the civil and municipal servant is the special means of activity influencing operated and at the same time served citizens. The communicative competence shown in various forms of work with information: in ability it to collect, analyze and systematize and make on this basis of the decision, including innovative - provides necessary level of interaction of employees in situations of professional communication both with colleagues, and with citizens.

One of the directions of the public and municipal administration reform is connected with development of project management that means transition from management of the actions making various target programs, to formation of socially significant projects and management of their realization. In full accordance with these positions in the Federal state educational standard of higher education in the preparation direction «Public and municipal administration» it is provided that participation of civil and municipal servants in creation and implementation of projects should be provided with the design competence including professional design competences.

It is attracts attention that the presented formulations of design competences assume ability of the civil and municipal servants to operate in some specific areas connected, for example, with housing and communal services, power supply, health care, culture or education. Ensuring design competence of the civil and municipal servants results in need to allocate along with the general and professional administrative competences special, third group of competences which, proceeding from logic and KSAO standard terminology, "technical" competences [16] make. By A.V.Khutorskoy determines them as subject as they provide real subject activity [22,23]. Traditional vocational training was mainly focused on formation of subject competences. Thus subject competences were information basis on which professional socialization in the course of collective labor activity (for example, during work practice) created the general competences. We refer these competences to professional and we call them in our work special (subject).

    Thus, the carried-out analysis allows to allocate three components of competences, is system defining professional competence of the municipal employee:

- the general (common cultural, tool, social and personal) competences;

- professional administrative competences;

- professional special competences.

 Important task of the theory and practice of management by professionalism of municipal employees is development and specification of the integrated model of competence which will help to provide performance of specific professional tasks of municipal service. At the heart of model the idea of integration thanks to which process of formation of a certain integrity is provided lies and there is a growth of intensity of interaction of synthesized components, their interconnection and interdependence amplifies at reduction of their relative independence.

The structure of competence of the municipal employee has the integrated character as it during life not only develops, but also is supplemented with new competences of process of complication of  “in levels” and “between levels” cooperation of competences with each other that means professionalism development. Integration of three components of competence of the municipal employee can be considered when developing model of an assessment, selection and development of professionalism of municipal employees.

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