1.Introduction
Seeking to achieve efficiency in the sphere of state service, civil service becomes ever more important due to the following reasons: rate of organizational and technical restructuring of the civil service is constantly increasing, and this requires that civil servants should regularly acquire new skills and learn regulations; comparatively increase of more qualify of civil servants demands that the individuals who have stayed in the public service should acquire more diverse skills; the process of international cooperation between countries of the European Union requires that civil servants should understand the peculiarities of public service functioning not only of their own country but of the European Union as well; so far the tradition that with the civil servant making his way up, his technical rather than managerial competence is accentuated, has prevailed in the public service of the member countries of the EU.
Cases are quite frequent the when high level professionals of a narrow specialization without any abilities for management and unable to efficiently run an office become chiefs; constant pressure of the society on the public service to prove its efficiency by material achievements requires that civil servants should be able to efficiently plan their activity and think strategically.