Policy Foresight on the Institutional Reform of Civil Service Training for Taiwan's High-Rank Officials Officials

摘要

Taiwan government has paid much attention to the institutional reform of civil service training for Taiwan's high-rank officials, which is also a critical research issue in the filed of public human resources management. The major problems of Taiwan’s high-rank officials training system are “the dual personnel systems in central government, disputes on bureaucrat’s core competences, upcoming high retirement rates among the high-rank civil servants,” and others. To solve these problems, the Government has been considering some strategies, including “the establishment of Senior Civil Service System, the expansion of talent sources, the improvements on examination and selection methods, the initiative of talent exchange program, and the provision of core competency checklist.” In order to provide an intensive and extensive base for decision-making on the reform of civil service training systems for Taiwan's high-rank officials, we have first studied a wide range of international cases and made a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis on Taiwan's current civil service training system and then designed a Delphi questionnaire, which was used to seek the consensus from 18 experts on issues, such as the required core competencies for the high-rank civil servants, division of training responsibilities, talent exchange system, career mapping, training and promotion mechanism. Three experts were then chosen from the 18 specialists and invited to partake in the Scenario Seminar, from which two (2) sets of 10-year foresight-planning scenarios on how to reform the civil service training system for Taiwan's high-rank officials have been drafted and proposed.