Government at a Glance: Western Balkans
Government at a Glance: Western Balkans presents information on public governance in the Western Balkan region – covering Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia, and compares it to OECD and OECD-EU countries. This first regional edition features 40 indicators on public finance, public employment, centre of government, budgeting practices and procedures, human resources management, public procurement, digital government, core government results and serving citizens. Governance indicators provide important benchmarks on public administration systems, practices and performance. Indicators are presented in a user-friendly format using charts, with brief descriptive analyses of the major findings, and a methodological section on the definition of the indicator and any limitations in data comparability.
Delegation of human resources practices
Decisions related to human resources management (HRM), including on recruitment, setting of pay or allocation of posts, can be taken by central HRM authorities or delegated to line ministries, departments or agencies and further down the line to the unit/team level. Delegating these decisions can provide flexibility to managers to adapt the working conditions in the workplace to the needs of their organisation and to the individual employees’ preferences and performance. Under the appropriate general frameworks and minimum standards, this could lead to a better alignment of human resources planning and management to the strategy of the organisation. However, without some degree of central guidelines and oversight arrangements delegation could instead produce uneven pay scales and consequently pay competition among organisations, limit opportunities for government-wide strategic HR planning, create barriers to mobility inside the civil service, open the door to nepotism and political interference in staffing decisions.
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