Gorb Victor

Since May 2023, the applicant’s or civil servant’s professional level is the primarycriterion for competing for vacant positions and during performance review. In this regard, it became essential to update performance review and competitive processes to enhance motivational influence on civil servants’professional development processes and the productivity,efficiency,and performance quality of their service activities.The article presents a system-activityapproach for modernizing the process of determining the professional level of civil servants.The scientificand methodological basis for creating the concept is based on the results of the author’s implementation of the system-activity approach in the process of developing a model of professional competence for public managers,determining the effectiveness,efficiency,and qualityof publicadministration,and designing professional and educational goals for publiccivil servants’training. As a result,the concepts of potential and actual professional levels are developed.The article presents the types of professional levels, criteria used to determine them, and organizational conditions the civil servants need to improve their professional level.

The article considers theoretical approaches to the performance, quality, and effectiveness of public executive bodies, as well as factors for improving the quality of the public executive bodies in achieving strategic goals. The study revealed the problem of insufficient theoretical validity for the proposed concepts to assess the quality and performance of public administration. The author tested the methodology of design and actualization for organizational and educational systems. Under this methodology, the public administration body is considered an organizational management system. The author developed a specific theoretical interdependence model of the notions of performance, quality, and effectiveness of the executive body of public administration. Based on the inversion analysis of the model, the author identified the problems and defined scientific-methodological and technological objectives. The solution to these issues will improve the performance efficiency of the executive body, the effectiveness, and the quality of its powers. Among the factors affecting the implementation of the public administration body's powers are the level of normative-legal regulation for the exercise of power, the managerial culture of the head of the public administration body, innovative activities to develop the government body, qualification of civil servants, financial, economic, and logistical support for the exercise of powers.

The article presents a system-activity approach to implementing the new federal state educational standard of higher education in the training direction 03.38.04 “State and Municipal Administration”. The article substantiates the methodology for designing a model of activities for public servants as the basis for determining professional goals of the educational process at a university. The author defines and differentiates the types of their activities according to the functional characteristics of various categories of civil servants. Professional goals are achieved through the development of professional competence of students, which implies the setting of the following educational goals: developing the student's leadership potential; developing the citizenship as the ability to realize the rights and responsibilities of a citizen of the country; forming and developing meta subject skills, which are the signs of a civil servant's professional qualities; mastering management technologies in a certain area of activity. The work presents the experience of approbation of the system-activity approach in the process of teaching. A special role is assigned by the author of information and communication activities of civil servants in the process of exercising their powers.

The author shows theoretical understanding of the basic concepts of the state educational standard for higher education and uses a system-activity approach to solution of methodological difficulties of designing the educational programs on specialty 38.03.04 - «State and municipal administration». The designing practice of the professional purposes for the particular academic subject is presented in the article. One of the remaining problems is the correlation of the notions ‘professional competence' and ‘professional competency'. Educational standards of the 2nd generation consisted of the contradictory notions, but the 3rd generation standards also have a drawback: it is stated that the educational objectives are the formation and development of the non-technical and professional competencies. Herewith the various objective educational goals (striving, readiness, capability, understanding, grasp, skill, handling) are set. However, the attribute of the professional competence is by no means striving, readiness for some activity or the understanding of the peculiarities of some processes. The logic flow chart of the professional qualities formation is proposed in the article.

The article focuses on the methodological problems that have arisen in the process of implementation of the new federal state educational standards for training Bachelor and Master-level students specializing in ‘Public and Municipal Administration’. Based on the systematic and activity-based approach the author formulates his recommendations for resolving these problems. The educational aims of the disciplines are systematized. The author considers meta-disciplinary professional skills of state and municipal servants, subject knowledge in the sphere of methodology and of practical activity as theoretical background for effectiveness, efficiency and quality of professional activity. This forms theoretical background for systematic goals-setting.