The development of human resources in public administration - from the technocratic model to the democratic model

Abstract

Traditional orientation in Personnel Administration within the Public Service has limited itself to questions of a recording and legal nature, where a quest for standardization of criteria and procedures of control, registry, turnover, payment and discipline of personnel has become the paramount directive. Together with other Public Administration activities and functions, the Administration of Human Resources (AHR) has not followed the newly installed process of redemocratization of the relationships between State and Society, between federal, state and local governments. Its technocratic premises, elaborated in the 30's and consolidated during the economic "boom" of the 60's and 70's, are still being defended, in a virtual resistency to the adoption of assumptions considering political and social aspects, in the definition and manifestation of governmental actions. The function of Development of Human Resources (DHR), therefore, has been underdimensioned, restricted to routine training events, often dissociated from real necessities of both the individual and the organization.