| 英文摘要 |
The Special Examinations for Local Government Employees (hereinafter referred to as
Local Special Examinations) in the Republic of China are held to meet specific needs of local
governments. The same examination is held simultaneously in different regions and those
qualified are assigned to government agencies in the region where the examination is held. As
currently stipulated in the Civil Service Examinations Act, government employees who have
taken and passed special examinations may not apply within the first six years to be transferred
outside the agencies or schools to which they are originally assigned. This is the principle of
“special examinations for specific purposes.” This study is intended to assess the feasibility
of reform of Local Special Examinations by analyzing related literature as well as adopting
the group focus method, in-depth interviewing and SWOT analysis to collect information and
perform statistical analysis.
This study concludes that the directions of reform include maintaining the status quo,
making gradual reform and initiating radical reform. In the meantime, it is also discovered
during the research that repeated examination enrollment and use of people with high
qualifications in insignificant positions are not real problems in reform of Local Special
Examinations. The real problems, as a matter of fact, are that not enough people or no one
passes such examinations and the passing threshold cannot be lowered to recruit more
government employees. For this reason, it is suggested that similar studies conducted in the
future should discuss the reliability of the examinations and the validity of civil servant
employment of the year, test item discrimination indices, comparison of different
examinations, and application of big data from examination statistics and etc. |