Redundant Personnel In The Government, The Lingering Problems In Public Administration And Countermeasures

In recent years, the Chinese government put more and more emphasis on the self-management and construction in the process of promoting the economic development. It started a series of reforms aiming at transforming the functions, building a service-oriented government and improving the administrative efficiency, and achieved preliminary results. Meanwhile, all sectors of the society paid much attention to the problems existing in the government departments, and theorists carried out systematic studies on overlapping organizations, overlapping functions, inefficiency, overstaffing and other institutional drawbacks of the government departments.High operational costs of government agencies will inevitably squeeze the financial budget, affecting inputs of the government in housing, education, health care, pension and many other livelihood projects, and thus the administrative costs of government agencies must be effectively controlled. In this paper, the author starts with the perspective of reducing the administrative costs of government agencies, selects the overstaffing problem as the study object, which is left over by history in the field of public administration and is becoming more and more serious, and conducts in-depth exploration.This study is divided into four parts. The introductory section introduces the study background of the overstaffing problem, defines the scope of the study, and systematically sorts out theories related to government reforms and human resources management both in China and in the West.In the second chapter, the author observes the current overstaffing situation in the Chinese government from multiple perspectives, In the analysis, the author vividly references the concepts in transportation, categorizes the overstaffing problem into "empty load", "light load", "carrying", "overload" and so on, and conducts more discussions on the recessive overstaffing phenomenon, noting that it is a more harmful form of overstaffing. Finally, the author cites two specific cases to further prove the existence of the above phenomena in modern Chinese.Then, the author explains the reason why government agencies are continuously expanding from the historical, political, cultural, economic, management aspects and so on, and conducts in-depth analysis on the reason why the previous reforms conducted by the Chinese government did not achieve solid success. In particular, the author adopts Parkinson’s Law and other important theories in human resources management to analyze the real process how the overstaffing problem of the government starts, spreads, accumulates and even becomes a chronic problem of management.Based on the above analysis, the author puts forward a series of feasible solutions at the end of this paper, including building a limited government, conducting the competency assessment, completing the grassroots public services, popularizing values of service-oriented government and improving the exit mechanism for civil servants.In the author’s view, the government reform is inevitable with the progress of the society, so to transform the government functions and streamline the administrative agencies will directly face the reposition of redundant personnel in the government. This is a social problem and how well it is solved will directly determine the success of the reform. Therefore, to conduct the feasibility study on this problem in advance is a very meaningful work.