| Abstract [eng] |
The Master Thesis “Role of County Governor’s Administration in Lithuanian System of Public Administration” is prepared in 2010. The author of the paper is Tadas Simelis. The aim of the research: to analyse the role of county management in the Lithuanian System of Public administration, the tendency of change and historical process of this mechanism. For implementation of the aim of the research the following objectives have been set: to ascertain the historical role of counties; to analyse the functions assigned to county’s governor and the measures applicable; to discuss the reasons and the essence of public administration system reforms; to ascertain the role of the county governor’s administration in the system of public administration, to explore the opinion of employees of county governor’s administration, employees of municipality and users of the services rendered by public administration institutions. Upon the analysis of the opinion of the employees of municipality, we can conclude that, according to the opinion of the employees of municipality, the functions of county governor’s administration can be taken over by municipalities, hereby improving rendering of services for residents. The activity of county governor’s administration is only important, when implementing regional programs. The employees of municipalities have no very divergent opinion, neither positive, no negative, on liquidation of the county governor’s administration and think that the liquidation of that institution will provide both positive and negative after-effects. The biggest attention, when liquidating the county governor’s administrations, must be given for strategic assessment of that process. The analysis of the employees of county governor’s administration showed that, the opinion of the employees of the county governor’s administration was coincident with the opinion of the municipality’s employees concerning the fact that within the period of the tough times the county governor’s administrations had to be retained as an institution, but the amount of employees should be decreased. The employees of the county governor’s administration assess their work favourably and state that the county governor’s administration is a well-established institution. According to their opinion, when liquidating the county governor’s administrations, the biggest attention must be given for fluent assignment of the functions. Upon the analysis of the opinion of the users of services rendered by county governor’s administrations, it was established that, basically, the users valuated the activity of the county governor’s administration adversely (78 per cent) although visited this institution quite rarely. They hoped that after liquidation of the county governor’s administrations the rendering of services for residents would improve, but pointed out that the main factor, which should be considered, when liquidating the county governor’s administrations, must be dismissal of employees. |
