Fundamentals of the civil service - quality of staff

The year 2022 will mark the 100th anniversary of the first Polish Civil Service Act. An uneasy history meant that for half of that period the concept did not function in practice. It was only after 1989 that the building of a modern public administration, also based on the idea of a civil service, began. The article points out that, both in the beginnings of the Polish civil service and nowadays, an important issue is the proper preparation of civil servants, especially at the higher level. In the period up to the outbreak of the Second World War, adequate solutions had not been developed. In the current period, since the beginning of the transformation, KSAP – the government School of Administration – has been operating in Poland. The main task of the School is to educate and prepare candidates for high-ranking posts in public administration, and to develop the competences of those who perform these important functions for the state as a whole.