THE INFLUENCE OF LOCAL AUTONOMY ON THE LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICES

Relevant aspects of the local autonomy are analysed, as well as the public services traits within the City Hall, by using longitude methods, starting the study at hand with a retrospective and contextual analysis of how this evolution took place both nationally and internationally. The paper at hand treats fundamental issues that exercise analysis means regarding the local autonomy influence on all public services. The issues that are treated are of real interest in theoretical and practical approach when underlining the sociology issues regarding public administration. period of time and that reflect the aspect of an objective reality of the every day social life 1 . Through administration and public services activities control, anti-productive pressures are exercised or certain abuse is favourised from the activity and autonomy of those services, then the institutions involved can no longer exercise their attributions according to the social expectations 2 . The public administration within the territorial administrative units is organised and functions based on the principles of local autonomy, of de-centralising of public services, the eligibility of local public administration authorities, on its legality, and on consulting the citizens in resolving local interest issues 3 . The principle of de-centralising the public services is essential to the local autonomy and consists of organising, functioning, control and termination of the public services by the local administration authorities. Reality underlines that we are facing an essential change of the role public administration plays for society, from executor of the legal rules, to that of main funder of public works and an important public services provider. Thus it is absolutely necessary that the public administration modernises its methods and working procedures, perfections it human resources, etc. so that it assures their performances. Public organisation management must find its base in the private organisations management. We consider that reevaluation of the state's functions, of the central governments, at the same time with autonomising and decentralising the public services and attributions towards the local administration are means that can create the premises for local colectivities progress, as well as raising the level of social individualisation. The public management studies the management processes and relations that are formed within the public sector in general and the public administration in particular, with the goal of identifying perfectioning and rationalising solutions of the public services. For this to be materialised, public management must function within every public organisation, every public service. The diversity character specific to public management finds its explanation and determination in the diversity of organisations that constitute a component of the public sector and automatically in the diversity of public services it organises or offers, as the case rises 4 . In conclusion, services management has a goal to get to know the management processes and relations within the public administration. Next to the aspects earlier mentioned, public services management also aims at providing efficient services that correspond to the social needs and public interest, thus argumenting the statement of specialist Peter Duker: effectiveness is the key to an organisation's success. The public managers in Romania are oriented towards strategic thinking, as a component of the public manager's profile, by broadening their horizon with the goal of putting things into perspective 5 . The current Romanian administrative system holds a small budget, and the quality and quantity of services depends on these restraints, but the new public management is based on results, mainly the quality and quantity of the necessary services offered 6 .