HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC SERVICE - THE ORIENTATION TOWARDS THE MANAGERIAL MODELS FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR OR THE DISPLACEMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE ETHOS?

The identification of the most effective ways to recuite and motivate the employees, as essential needs of human resource management, are a permanent challenge of the managers both in private and public sector. Taking into consideration the particularities of the public sector, the motivation of public servants, needs close analysis. “The implication for responsive and cost-effective government is that failure to properly understand the motivations of public employees may lead in the short term to poor job performance and in the long term to permanent displacement of public service ethic” 1 . This paper deals with two aspects of human resource management in public service. On the one hand, we will see how aspects from the private sector could be introduced in the motivation of the public servants and the problem of the displacement of public service ethos it brings with it, and on the other hand, we will underline that the actual recruiting system of the public servants in Romania needs serious changes to bring well equipped and motivated individuals. Public service motivation