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The Civil Service Act: Monitoring the Process of Making of the Act No. 234/2014 Coll., of the Civil Service
Tkadlčík, Jakub ; Novotný, Vilém (advisor) ; Musílková, Markéta (referee)
I devote major attention to the Act no. 234/2014 Coll., of the Civil Service, which was accepted despite the veto of the President on 1st October 2014. I briefly characterize the law and in the practical part I analyze and interpret the process of making of this law through a theoretical concept "Multiple Streams Approach". Within the theory I focus on the context of agenda setting to the issue and simultaneously I take into account the role of Policy Entrepreneurs in the legislative process of the Civil Service Act. After reading the reader will have an overview of the process of making the Civil Service Act. The reader will be also familiar with the shortcomings of this Act, for which it was criticized. The theoretical part is used for introducing to the issue. In the theoretical part I outline the historical development of the civil service in Czech Republic and I also briefly characterize the Civil Service Act. Subsequently the reader gets the knowledge about the content of "Multiple Streams Approach" in this part. The practical part of diploma work is enriched by attitudes and opinions of two political actors, who directly attended of discussing the law in Chamber of Deputies. It will be possible to compare the data received from expert survey with the results of the analysis process of making law.
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Further education of civil servants
Štiková, Kristýna ; Veselý, Arnošt (advisor) ; Kohoutek, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the area of further education of civil servants at the level of the central government and its aim is to critically evaluate further education at selected departments in connection with the introduction of Act No. 234/2014 Coll., which came into force on the 1st January 2015. The thesis describes how the Civil Service Act influences the further education of central government officials, it outlines the key issues that are related to the education of central government officials and shows what are the problems that central government officials encounter in the field of further education. The research project is the case study, which included public policy documents related to the topic of further education and data collected through in-depth interviews with ten officials of two selected departments and two representatives of the human resources department, was used. Based on the thematic analysis, key issues of further education of central government officials were identified: educational needs, meeting educational needs, sources of information retrieval, and a official exam. Problems encountered by central government officials in the field of further education are part of these issues.
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Civil service Act - Development and result
Staněk, Michal ; Svoboda, Petr (advisor) ; Millerová, Ivana (referee)
Civil service Act - Development and result Abstract The new Civil Service Act (CSA) is a significantly amended version of the previous Civil Service Act № 218/2002 that never came fully into force. This thesis briefly describes the main principles and reasoning behind the proposed legislative measures, taking into account specific socio-political context and reflecting previous practice of public employment in the Czech Republic. During 21 years of its existence, the Czech Republic was governed by 13 different governments. In average, the state witnessed change in its leadership every 18 months. This political instability left a significant mark on the Czech public administration that continuously suffered from excessive political interference. In connection with the accession to the EU, the Civil Service Act approved by the Commission was adopted in 2002. Its entry into force, however, was five times postponed by numerous Czech governments, allegedly because of high budgetary demands of the implementation (the reason that has never been proven). The employment of state employees was based on the Labour Code and they did not enjoy any special legal protection. Frequent changes of top and middle management of the administrative bodies that usually followed after each political change led to the loss of...
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Selected issues of the civil service act
Mihok, Kateřina ; Vedral, Josef (advisor) ; Svoboda, Petr (referee)
Selected Issues of the Civil Service Act - Abstract The thesis "Selected Issues of the Civil Service Act" deals with legislative development of Civil Service Act and its practical implementation with focus on civil service proceedings. The first chapter of the thesis follows the legislative development of the Civil Service Act that is used not only to demonstrate dynamic development of the law but through the descriptions of its novelisations it also introduces the law to reader. Hence, in the first chapter, the thesis evaluates and explains legislative changes and highlights issues that may arise with certain novelized provisions during practical application of the Act. The second chapter is dedicated to the civil service proceedings. It examines course of the proceedings and is focused on their individual stages. The thesis does not consider administrative proceeding in general. It introduces particular elements of civil service proceedings in context of the administrative proceeding in order to determine whether current legal framework is sufficient. Practical implementation of the civil service proceedings can be found in this chapter. They are elucidated through the basic principles used to conduct the proceedings, interpretation of material jurisdiction and management of the civil servant personal...
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Implementation of the Civil Service Act with regard to the stability of the service relationship
Ptáčková Melicharová, Lenka ; Tomšej, Jakub (referee)
Implementation of the Civil Service Act with regard to the stability of the service relationship Abstrakt The thesis aims to descript and evaluate the Civil Service Act. Particular attention is paid to its implementation, as well as to compensating the state of government before the law takes effect, and finally to the partial more detailed treatment of Kazuistic examples. At work, I have set out to objectively, with the help of available resources and data, whether in practice the objectives of the Civil Service Act are being met, that is to de-politicise the civil service, increase transparency and stability of government, increase professionalisation, but also enhance the efficiency and performance of service offices. In the first chapter, in the context of those objectives, I set out working hypotheses that will be verified during the process of the thesis and confirmed or rejected at the conclusion of the work. For the purposes of this work, I defined three hypotheses: 1. The implementation of the Civil Service Act will increase the stability of State Government 2. Implementing the Civil Service Act will increase the expenditure on performing this service i.e. the civil service will be far more costly. 3. Implementing the Civil Service Act will not improve the efficiency of the civil service, but there...
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Implementation of the Civil Service Act with regard to the stability of the service relationship
Ptáčková Melicharová, Lenka ; Pichrt, Jan (advisor) ; Morávek, Jakub (referee)
Implementation of the Civil Service Act with regard to the stability of the service relationship Abstrakt The thesis aims to descript and evaluate the Civil Service Act. Particular attention is paid to its implementation, as well as to compensating the state of government before the law takes effect, and finally to the partial more detailed treatment of Kazuistic examples. At work, I have set out to objectively, with the help of available resources and data, whether in practice the objectives of the Civil Service Act are being met, that is to de-politicise the civil service, increase transparency and stability of government, increase professionalisation, but also enhance the efficiency and performance of service offices. In the first chapter, in the context of those objectives, I set out working hypotheses that will be verified during the process of the thesis and confirmed or rejected at the conclusion of the work. For the purposes of this work, I defined three hypotheses: 1. The implementation of the Civil Service Act will increase the stability of State Government 2. Implementing the Civil Service Act will increase the expenditure on performing this service i.e. the civil service will be far more costly. 3. Implementing the Civil Service Act will not improve the efficiency of the civil service, but there...
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Civil service according to the Civil service Act and its changes due to annual systemization
Staněk, Michal ; Kopecký, Martin (referee)
The new Civil service Act № 234/2014 Coll. came more than three years ago into full effectiveness. The period before the full effectiveness described the author already in his diploma thesis named Civil service Act - Development and result. Therefore this thesis aims to describe and analyse the idea of Civil service as defined in the Civil service Act and focuses to its changes due to implementation of the annual systemization. Importance in the first part of the thesis is given to general introduction to the Civil service idea according to the Civil service Act. The ongoing novelization tendencies affecting various aspects of the Civil services are described, including the problems with application of passive voting right to the head of departments in the regional governments. The second part of the thesis describes the selected aspects of the change of the Civil service due to change of the systemization according to the § 17 of the Civil service Act. The attention is given to the description and analysis of the legal aspects of the systemization and its consequences to the changes of the Civil service of the head of departments. Introduction to the possibilities of defence against such changes of the Civil service in the framework of administrative law is given, including analysis of the issued...
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Europeanization of national policy on the case of the Civil Service Act in the Czech Republic
Lukavec, Tomáš ; Ochrana, František (advisor) ; Novotný, Vilém (referee)
This diploma thesis is a case study dealing with the role of the European Union in the adoption of the Czech Civil Service Act in 2014. The author follows the question why the Act was adopted ten years after the Czech Republic joined the European Union. The first part of the thesis deals with the European administrative area and individual models of public administration in Europe. It also discusses the use of various forms of influencing the policies of the member states with different instruments. Further, the work analyzes the development of the service law in the Czech Republic and examines the strategies and approaches of the main actors in the legislative process. In order to find out how the issue was framed by political actors, the individual verbal speeches at the plenary sittings of the Czech Parliament are examined. In the last part, the findings are generalized to represent individual strategies and the dynamics of their change. In order to respond to the research goal, the data is interpreted on the basis of the Multiple Streams Framework, demonstrating a change in the status quo in the field of public service performance regulation.
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Politico-administrative relations and politicization in ministries of Czech Republic
Zápotocká, Veronika ; Veselý, Arnošt (advisor) ; Kohoutek, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis explores the topic of politico-administrative relationships and professional literature. The first part of thesis is based on the theory of politico-administrative relationships using the models created by Aberbach, Rockman, and Putnam (1981) and focuses on the development of the relationships in time. The following part introduces the phenomenon of politicization and several important typologies that specify it and show the multilayer nature of this term - it uses the knowledge of the following authors: Peters (2013), Eichbaum and Shaw (2008) and Hustedt and Salomonsen (2014). In the next part, the thesis focuses on the Czech context of this issues, briefly summarizes Civil Service Act. And introduces its own qualitative research conducted on the sample of ministerial officials. The research reveals 4 essential issues which characterise the politico-administrative relationship and politicization in the Czech Republic. These issues are third parties in in politico-administrative relationship, the position of state secretary, issue of influenzability of personal structure of ministry and positive politicization. Beside these characteristics and outline of possible ways of follow-up of research, diploma thesis emphasize importance of neutral approach to research issues, because...
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Further education of civil servants
Štiková, Kristýna ; Veselý, Arnošt (advisor) ; Kohoutek, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the area of further education of civil servants at the level of the central government and its aim is to critically evaluate further education at selected departments in connection with the introduction of Act No. 234/2014 Coll., which came into force on the 1st January 2015. The thesis describes how the Civil Service Act influences the further education of central government officials, it outlines the key issues that are related to the education of central government officials and shows what are the problems that central government officials encounter in the field of further education. The research project is the case study, which included public policy documents related to the topic of further education and data collected through in-depth interviews with ten officials of two selected departments and two representatives of the human resources department, was used. Based on the thematic analysis, key issues of further education of central government officials were identified: educational needs, meeting educational needs, sources of information retrieval, and a official exam. Problems encountered by central government officials in the field of further education are part of these issues.
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