Sorto Francisco Rivas
Economist, specialist in Public Policy Management
fran.sorto @ gmail.com
Meritocracy is a form of government based on merit s demonstrable people, where the positions hierarchical organizations are won based on individual merit, adherence to common values \u200b\u200band spirit of healthy competition, as with professionals have been trained in Most countries, taking into account for example, excellence in education and the historical performance of the professional.
the President to take office, said that would promote a meritocratic public management and the review court is making a commitment, high level to meet various cases of suspension of contracts in public administration seem to point in that direction.
This inspiration is palpable when public officials, for example, are selected according to their capacity and followed a rigorous process of entrance exams, the state bureaucracy.
Although in most countries of the region we can observe these principles in recruitment, only Singapore and Finland are used consistently, merit-based standards to select, even top-level officials to manage public institutions, ie the positions of our countries are considered positions of trust and political- which can be extreme.
However, in several developed countries, particularly those newly industrialized, hiring the most competent for public administration has become a standard, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan are some examples should be studied in this area, where the state draws from the best university graduates.
The main argument in favor of meritocracy is that it ensures greater efficiency over other hierarchical systems, since the distinctions among the officials most responsible, do not meet criteria of sex, race , wealth or social position , etc. This does not mean that this is intended to eliminate social differences existing in the economy, but the motivation to establish a strategic HR planning, in these institutions, would ensure that individual efforts on which the prosperity of open societies flourish permanently reinforcing efficient organizations, all in the interests of taxpayers .
note here that the performance of most successful businesses are based precisely on the selection procedures for hiring staff and even, as we see in academic organizations , where the results of the output profile of their graduates do not depend exclusively teaching-learning process adopted, but also the educational model in place for such purposes, including the definition of the input profile required of students enrolling and crown their careers in these centers.
If, as managers know that the results depend on the quality of the resources used in the production process, including the powers of HR hired public institutions would benefit by selecting professionals to help them to map the institutional budget of a better way, depending on the policies to be administered through them, the benefit of the collective imagination.
Whenever there is change of government stresses the need to promote the State's administrative reform aimed at improving the quality of human resources working in its offices; it also speaks of the need of ranks and protecting its stability through reforms to the Civil Service Act, but has made little progress on it, hopefully this time, it is carried out such efforts in the interest of efficiency and economy must administer public funds, the history has to demonstrate that friendship may be necessary to choose collaborators but not enough to achieve positive results in public administration.