Public Administration in Post-Communist Countries

282  ◾  Public Administration in Post-Communist Countries

civil service—on which earlier figures on the civil service are based—having existed since

1994, has stopped operations since it was not able to follow the structural and procedural

changes.) One may, however, risk saying that the across-the-table decrease in civil service

employment at the territorial and local levels was well into the two-digit range, in some cases

possibly even reaching 30%–50%.

◾ Reforming the human resource management system: In 2006, a high-level official, responsible

for preparing and implementing new HRM practices, was appointed in the Prime Minister’s

Office. Having arrived from the corporate world, his leading ideas were closely tied to radi-

cally breaking away ...