<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article analyses the contextual factors and their impact on the planned creation of senior civil service (henceforth, SCS) within the Lithuanian civil service system since 2008. Based on a survey of Lithuanian senior executives’ conducted in 2014 and qualitative semi-structured interviews, the aim of this article is to reveal and explain incentives and obstacles of SCS reform in Lithuania. Empirical research data clarifies attitudes of senior civil servants and their role perceptions. Senior executives’ attitudes towards the establishment of the SCS system were clearly positive. However, the research data reveals that supportive attitudes depend on the perception of the roles of senior executives. Senior civil servants who perceived themselves firstly as actors in policy formation and policy implementers were much more favourable towards the creation of SCS than senior civil servants with other role identities.</p></abstract>

This article analyses the contextual factors and their impact on the planned creation of senior civil service (henceforth, SCS) within the Lithuanian civil service system since 2008. Based on a survey of Lithuanian senior executives’ conducted in 2014 and qualitative semi-structured interviews, the aim of this article is to reveal and explain incentives and obstacles of SCS reform in Lithuania. Empirical research data clarifies attitudes of senior civil servants and their role perceptions. Senior executives’ attitudes towards the establishment of the SCS system were clearly positive. However, the research data reveals that supportive attitudes depend on the perception of the roles of senior executives. Senior civil servants who perceived themselves firstly as actors in policy formation and policy implementers were much more favourable towards the creation of SCS than senior civil servants with other role identities.

Context as a Factor in Senior Civil Service Reform: Opinions and Attitudes of Senior Executives in Lithuania

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

This article analyses the contextual factors and their impact on the planned creation of senior civil service (henceforth, SCS) within the Lithuanian civil...

Context as a Factor in Senior Civil Service Reform: Opinions and Attitudes of Senior Executives in Lithuania

Published Online: Oct 17, 2016

Page range: 124 - 152

Received: Apr 26, 2016

Accepted: Jul 11, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjlp-2016-0006

Keywords
Senior civil service, senior executives, civil service reform, contextual factors

© 2016 Remigijus Civinskas et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Context as a Factor in Senior Civil Service Reform: Opinions and Attitudes of Senior Executives in Lithuania

Published Online: Oct 17, 2016

Page range: 124 - 152

Received: Apr 26, 2016

Accepted: Jul 11, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjlp-2016-0006

KeywordsSenior civil service, senior executives, civil service reform, contextual factors

© 2016 Remigijus Civinskas et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Senior civil service, senior executives, civil service reform, contextual factors