Okhotsky Evgeny V.

The article focuses on the Russian Federation’s career management systems and the Institute of the Personnel Reserve of the Civil Service. The author examined current practices for working with the talent reserve, highlighted significant problems with its creation and development, and suggested solutions to these challenges. The work focuses on issues such as the evolution of nomenklatura practices and the comparative analysis of various career paths, the selection and professional development of government employees, the effectiveness of the personnel reserve system, and overcoming negative behaviors such as careerism, bureaucracy, and corrupt self-serving abuses. The article proposes measures to optimize existing HR practices and identifies the conditions necessary for the effective functioning of the system of personal and professional development of public sector leaders.

Interest in the concept of the social contract has grown significantly in recent years. The article reviews Zh.T. Toshchenko’s foundational monograph, which provides an indepth examination of the development of this institution in Russia. Toshchenko’s book examines the history of the social contract concept and its application in Russia. The text explores the core characteristics of the social contract, its essential meaning, and its practical importance for maintaining a balance of social interests while achieving the strategic objectives of state-building and overall social development. The article addresses the need to update the current social contract in view of contemporary political and economic circumstances.

In the practice of public administration, managers of various levels of government inevitably face the problem ofincreasing the efficiency of their activities while striving to achieve the intended result. The combination of effectiveness andefficiency is quite possible and necessary to achieve the goals of various structural units within the framework of publicadministration. However, it should be recognized that the simplicity and speed in achieving the goals of effectiveness leads to suchpractical situations when the heads of public services achieve effectiveness to the detriment of effective activity in relation to theachievement of management goals. In this regard, it is important to identify and analyze the aspects of the work of the operatorsand the conditions that can significantly improve its efficiency. Such an analysis should begin with an examination of the problemof setting and implementing the goals of public administration. The need for a targeted approach is due to the fact that theachievement of these goals determines the success of management within complex systems. It should be recognized that anyfailure to set goals (at all levels of government) leads to serious flaws in the administration of public structures.

The article examines the status of a civil servant as a socio-political institution of public law regulation. It presents the relevant details of the main status factors - citizenship; position and its place in the official structure of the state body; rights, duties and requirements for official behavior; restrictions and prohibitions on service; basic professional and personal characteristics of the employee of modern formation. It is emphasized that the presented positions are not only the basis of the success of the state and the efficiency of performance, but also a factor of stability of career and prestige of the profession of public servant. Some weaknesses of the current civil service personnel, including in terms of countering bureaucratic and corrupt practices, are not bypassed. To date, a completely modern system of public service has been formed; the organic unity of its official structure and staffing has been ensured, the rights, duties and responsibilities of employees of the apparatus have been balanced, and favorable conditions have been created for the display of initiative. The main status imperative of every employee of the public sphere in the modern state should be honest and highly professional service to society, the desire to work in accordance with the law and live according to conscience. Modern, highly organized, reputable public service needs conscientious professionals, people who are set up for high-performance work, responsible attitude and innovative nature of service.