Basic Report

  
  
    The purpose of this study is to suggest systematic alternatives that may improve the expertise of local public officials. Raising the expertise is the minimum requirement for local governments to survive and develop through radical internal and external changes. However, realistically, the expertise of local public officials does not meet the level of authority that local governments have and cannot cope with environmental changes.
   From these aspects, this study examines factors that hinder the expertise of local public officials and suggests alternatives to resolve them in terms of fresh recruitment of personnel, management of appointment, educational training, and exchange of personnel.
   First, to recruit new personnel, the open system of positions should be improved to rationalize the existing recruitment system and the special appointment system should be more  widely used to introduce fresh recruitment of personnel. In turn, this study suggests ways to increase the weight of interviews in the recruiting process and to reflect regional conditions and administrative demand in test subjects as an alternative to improving test equipment.
   Second, for the management of appointment, there is a need to introduce the professional appointment route system as a way to secure the management of appointment and to strengthen the local personnel committee as a preventive measure for the arbitrariness of heads of local government. Additionally, this study suggests a way to fractionize administrative series of positions in order to adjust the structure of public official.
   Third, for educational training, a committee overlooking the curriculum should be established to increase professional instructors and to transform the operation of educational institutions.
   Fourth, for the exchange of personnel, incentives should be strengthened in organizational and individual levels in order to motivate voluntary participation. This study further suggests a way to exchange personnel from the private sector and from other countries to expand the range of personnel exchange.