MANAGERIAL PERSONNEL RESERVES: FROM PATRONAGE TO MERITOCRACY

Abstract

The article concentrates on specificity of the current model of staff reserves in the Russian system of government. The purposeof the study is to identify the specificity of the model of modern personnel reserves in comparison with the Soviet staff policy as well as withother well-known models of personnel reserve in civil service and business. We assumed that modern personnel reserves in the civilservice are not direct copying of the Soviet model for selection and promotion of personnel in the nomenclature system. The article providesan organized review of expert assessments and traces the development of personnel reserves over the past twenty years. We used twotypes of analysis in our work: asynchronous comparative analysis with the Soviet model, as well as synchronous comparison with similarpractices of the corporate sector. The authors conclude that modern reserves of managerial personnel and SGS (State Geodetic Service)personnel reserves do not have direct analogs in the meritocratic models of the civil service in OECD countries, the corporate sector or inthe Soviet past. We are talking about a unique combination of personnel technology, which has arisen in modern Russian society as aresponse to the often opposing requests and representations of main stakeholders.