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New Bureaucracy? Make Way for Youth
Policies blocking turnover have caused a resizing and aging of the Italian public administration, raising the need to rejuvenate and upgrade the bureaucratic machine. To that end, it is essential to invest in processes of attraction and selection of young talent, competing in the labor market with private businesses. International experiences show the effective introduction of active recruitment strategies ...
New Leadership for the Italian PA
An analysis of the resumes of Italian public managers shows that they are very old (54.8 years of age, total average), their origin (and education) is from the Center and South of the country, with legal education and limited experience internationally and outside of the public administration. More than one-third of top managers are women: on this point, the central public administration has a better ...
Women and the PA: A Case of Half Success
Despite being the majority in the public administration (58 percent of the total employees in OECD countries), women see less career advancement than men. While on the one hand, they are gradually occupying typically male public jobs (no longer only teachers and nurses, but also judges, prefects, and city clerks), on the other, they are still underrepresented in management roles. A career in the public ...
Investments Require New Leadership in the Public Sector
This is a critical and unresolved issue for our country's system, as despite efforts to strengthen administrative capacities and provide technical assistance, it continues to hinder the spending capacity of the European funds from which we benefit. The 2014-2020 programming period, which is coming to an end, shows, as of the time of writing, a spending rate of 63 percent of the resources allocated ...