FAS IS FOR TRAINING EFFICIENT MANAGERS

FAS Expert Council on organizational design and personnel management discussed a programme on adaptation of newly appointed Heads of regional Offices

“Successful FAS work is impossible without efficient leadership. Therefore, in our HR policy we must be abreast of time, paying more attention to development programmes for senior managers. It concerns, for example, newly appointed Heads of and Departments and regional Offices”, emphasized Chairman of the Expert Council, Deputy Head of FAS Alexei Dotsenko, opening the event. “Newcomers need adaptation. It is not simply a question of a new official feeling comfortable in one’s position, but it is also essential for FAS to get a senior manager who is 101% ready to execute one’s duties and undertake the leadership functions”.

Head of FAS Public Service Department, Ekaterina Belousova shared the practice of an adaptation programme for new Heads of FAS regional Offices. She pointed out that “the efforts on adaptation of new top officials are very important for FAS. The main goal is to achieve high performance of FAS regional Offices in rather short time. The value of the programme, in my opinion, lies in its comprehensiveness. For example, we created a common methodological basis with the tools to organize the work of OFAS Heads in the initial period.

The programme includes distance training as well as classroom instructions at FAS Centre for Education and Methodology, practical training in the form of a business game and internship. The latter three are based on the team-work principles.

“Devising the adoption programme, we decided that it will be built on predominantly active forms of interaction based on team work”, explains Elena Bobrova, Deputy Head of FAS Public Service Department. “It is not a coincidence that we have opted for the team-work principle. It is team work that enables active people, who gear for overall results and problem-solving, to unite efforts and collaborate efficiently, determine the goals and outcomes that they aspire to achieve in a rather short period”.

Describing the training, Head of FAS Public Service Department, Ekaterina Belousova pointed out that the goal is in hands-on learning of managerial methods and tools and understanding the specifics of interaction with federal and regional authorities.

Head of Lipetsk OFAS Irina Potkina emphasized the importance of the training: “It helps formalize and systematize the results of theoretical studies and allows retranslating the experience obtained”.

Head of Sverdlovsk OFAS, Dmitry Shalabodov proposed to extrapolate the experience of the adaptation programme on those Heads of FAS regional Offices that have already been with the antimonopoly body for a long time: “All of us should be together like a single mechanism, keep up with the times and be abreast with our newly appointed colleagues”.

Director of the Department of State Policy on Public and Municipal Service and Anti-Corruption, of the Ministry of Labour of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Basnak emphasized that other bodies also highly interested in the training programmes for public administrators. He asked the Expert Council to invite representatives of other authorities for the next meeting and consider a possibility to include the adaptation programme in the course for professional development of top managers at the Presidential Academy of National Economic and Public Administration.

Discussing evaluation of staff qualification, for current as well as potential public servants, the Expert Council looked at further refinement of the “competition law specialist” professional standard approved by the Ministry of Labour, expanding use of the capabilities of FAS Centre for Education and Methodology, and the inevitability of implementing an international practice for evaluating staff qualification.

Finally, Bulat Salimzyanov, Director of FAS Centre for Education and Methodology presented draft software for testing FAS public servants.