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.