Defining staffing needs for the state programs implementation

Abstract

The implementation of thestate programs as a key managerial tool in public administration suggests the need to link the resources used for attaining targets and the results achieved. So far, this practice has mostly concerned financial resources (mostly budget expenditures),however, human resources also play a key role in achieving the results. The article reviews the specific features of the activities included in the state programs and suggests the ways for determining staffing needs for them. The consideration of these peculiarities willdirect the personnel policy on achieving the objectives of public programs and distribute rationally the staff with respect to priority tasks. The article is prepared in the framework of the research on Developing and piloting methodic approaches for evaluating staffing needs, optimizing staff levels and stimulating federal civil servants in the framework of programmatic methods of public administration carried out as the part of RANEPA state assignment in 2015.