How HR planning can overcome contemporary challenges to the public sector

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How HR planning can overcome contemporary
challenges to the public sector

• Experiences of introducing GPEEC in France

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GPEEC Forecast management of staff, posts and
competencies

• Moving towards this increasingly quickly since
  2000
• Signature of framework agreements
• Creation of the Observatory of Public Employment
• Creation of Observatory of Employment in the
  Public Health civil service
• Impetus given by the inter-ministerial committees
  for state reform
• Regional conferences for local government
  employment implemented
• Momentum given in the State civil service through
  the Minister of Public Administration

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Why GPEEC the challenges we need to address

• Growing demands from citizens for higher quality
  public services
• Impending retirement of a large number of current
  civil servants
• Forecast increased competition with the private
  sector for recruitment
• Need to ensure the competencies of civil servants
  from a perspective of enriching careers
• Constrained budgetary context and consequent
  necessity to improve the efficiency of public
  services
• Regional demographic changes leading to the need
  to redeploy public services

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How GPEEC addresses these issues

• As an employer
• Cross-matching skills with needs to inform
  recruitment
• As guarantor of the wider public interest
• Contributing to the attractivity of the public
  sector
• To facilitate the implementation of the LOLF
• Using the ministerial GPEEC plans as a framework,
  an instrument of dialogue, and a means to achieve
  objectives

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Balancing diversity with consistency

• Within a centrally defined framework, ministries
  are required to perform annually
• Strategic exercise
• HR exercise
• Technical exercise

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Implementation of GPEEC the Ministry of
Equipment

• Performed the strategic exercise by categorising
  its missions into
• Missions needing to be developed
• Missions needing to be refocused
• Missions needing to be abandoned
• Missions needing to be transferred
• Resulting in a forecast need to transfer posts to
  the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior and
  Defence, and the national Police

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Implementation of GPEEC the Ministry of the
Interior

• Performed the HR exercise by establishing a plan
  agreed with the social partners to
• Re-examine the dynamic between posts and careers
• Redefine recruitment and training policies
• Develop professional career paths

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Conclusions benefits of GPEEC

• For the Ministry of Public Administration
• A better dialogue with the ministries in terms of
  reform
• A better knowledge of the ministries
• For the other Ministries
• More visibility of the overall HR policy
  direction of the Ministry of Public
  Administration
• Increased coherence between different activities
• Sharing experiences and good practices

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The summaries of of the ministerial plans is
available on the site Public Administration
www.fonction-publique.gouv.fr underneath
 Observatoire de lemploi public / activité
2004-2005