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Scientific evaluation of the "Second Collective Agreement on Measures to Accompany the Reorganisation of the Brandenburg State Administration" (TV Umbau II)
The National Institute for Public Administration Germany was conducting a scientific evaluation of the TV Umbau II on behalf of Ministry of the Interior and for Municipal Affairs.
AI used by the state: Safeguarding autonomy and human rights with transparency to citizens and support for public servants
The focus of the project were the conditions for an AI transparency register for public administration.
Planning permission advice and communication support for the Hamburg/Bremen-Hanover railway project
The National Institute for Public Administration Germany is undertaking the project 'Planning permission advice and communication support for the Hamburg/Bremen-Hanover railway project' on behalf of DB Netz AG.
Leadership in transformation, leadership development in Europe
The increasing complexity of political and administrative decisions makes leadership in the public sector all the more important. Faced with long-term challenges such as climate change, demographic change and digitalisation, the public sector and government departments are being forced to develop the best possible solutions to deliver public services under complex conditions. Leadership skills and personalities are more in demand than ever before, and in an international context there is a growing demand for the expansion of systematic personnel development measures for managers who make political and administrative decisions today and in the future. Against this background, the sub-project aims to analyse leadership development in a European comparison in order to provide the German ministerial administration with concrete recommendations for action for systematic further development at federal and state level. In the context of current and future challenges for managers, the project will examine the extent to which leadership development is already aligned with emerging change processes and what needs are manifested in this context.
Diversity in the public sector as a public value
Recent years have seen a proliferation of initiatives aimed at increasing and strengthening the diversity of the public sector workforce. This has been driven not only by skills shortages, but also by the recognition that broad representation contributes to greater responsiveness in public administration. By responding better and more specifically to the concerns and needs of all sections of the population, it also strengthens the acceptance of administrative actions. Ultimately, the project aims to create a 'toolbox' for the diversity-sensitive socialisation of public administration. The focus is on the state level and includes the management and professional levels embedded there.
Taking skills into consideration in recruitment and career development in the public sector
The public administration is increasingly becoming the largest employer in Europe, making modern recruitment and development policies of paramount importance. Human resource management also requires a medium-term perspective to enable the necessary planning of staffing needs. There is a growing need for recruitment and development tools that take into account informal skills, especially those of managers. Matching job supply and demand requires a strategy that enables the right selection of people with the right professional and technical skills, as well as the right soft skills, such as social skills, teamwork and resilience. Traditionally, public sector issues are mainly discussed at national level, although European standards sometimes overshadow national path dependencies. The project therefore aims to fill a research gap by involving experts from theory and practice from selected European countries in addressing individual research topics, in order to obtain recommendations for action for the German public administration from this 'internal perspective'.
Public values and the attractiveness of the public sector in European comparison
At the heart of public values, which in simple terms can be understood as the principles that the general public consider beneficial to community life, is the orientation of state action towards the common good. This in turn is secured and promoted by a number of principles, such as adherence to the constitution and the law, loyalty to one's employer and meritocracy, which hence can also be seen as public values in a broader sense. One focus of the analysis will centre around the discussion of public values in the context of a leadership role in the public sector. The question of the general expectation of public sector managers, their ethical commitment and the optimal institutional conditions for value-based management will be explored. In addition, the role of soft law and the relationship between administrative law (administrative regulations, ministerial circulars, etc.) and provisions with external effects will be examined.
Predictive task-based skills planning and development
Demographic change is leading to a change in the structure of work in public authorities. The number of employable people will go down, the workforce will become older and more heterogeneous, and it will become much more difficult to recruit newly qualified staff in competition with the private sector. In addition to demographic change, various changes (e.g. the introduction of new technologies to convert analogue processes into digital ones) and new tasks, as well as the digital transformation itself (i.e. the adaptation of entire business processes or models to reflect the digital changes) are leading to new ways of working in public authorities, which mandate that employees adapt quickly to these changes. The development of skills needs to be planned proactively to ensure the performance of the administration in the future. The project builds on this need by focusing on skills planning and development in public administrations. The aim of the project is to develop a basic methodological model for forecasting tasks and the associated skills requirements, which is specifically tailored to the differentiation in levels and tasks in public administrations.
Administration survey
The current research programme at the National Institute for Public Administration Germany includes undertaking an administrative survey for the public administration in Germany. This instrument for surveying public administration staff has already been established in other countries, including Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. However, it has not yet been implemented systematically in Germany. While thematic or institutional surveys have been conducted, a comprehensive survey of administrative staff across different levels of administrative and policy areas has not yet been undertaken. The National Institute for Public Administration Germany administrative survey aims to fill this gap in the research landscape.
Knowledge management in public administration
To respond effectively to the systemic challenges of multidimensional transformation of the administration, it is essential to optimise existing governance resources. Knowledge represents one of these critical resources for managing a wide range of administrative tasks. In this way, knowledge helps to improve the capacity of the administration to act by enabling administrative staff to access relevant information, to check the quality of this information, to derive knowledge from it and to make decisions based on this knowledge on how to carry out their tasks. The aim of the research project is to develop a concept for integrated knowledge management in order to make existing knowledge available for administrative practice in the best possible way in the future.
