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Reinventing Government and Flexible Employment Policy / Tsai Liang-Wen

When the governmental promotion of significant public works and investments with active measures in early 1990, resulted in heavier burdens both on government finance and public official system, the Executive Yuan eventually passed 'Guidelines on Reinventing Government' in January of 1998 with purpose to introduce enterprise management essence, to reform the government as an innovative, flexible, and resourceful one, and to raise the overall national competitiveness. Since 2000 the office shifted, the new ruling party has targeted on control governmental powers and national operation mechanism through adjusting values of public officials and realizing new policies on human resource administration in order to achieve personnel flexible management, especially on employing the executive leadership to control the official government system and increasing contract employees to locate those specially hired to new business. In October of 2001 the Government Reengineering Committee was organized to advocate Executive Yuan's organizational reconstruction, cutting legislator seats and election reform, abandoning autonomic election on county and township levels, and flexible governmental personnel system. The last purpose involving in correspondent reforms of relevant official systems, appears the big issue.
Corresponding to the international trend, changes of internal and external environments, demands on governmental human resources, and regulations under the constitution, how to enhance the executive leadership, rebuild diplomatic accomplishment of the high-level officials, establish the official chief system, and design the balanced personnel mechanism between examination election and flexible invitation, is the core topic the study explores. Meanwhile, the government reinvention shall prevent that government's active responses fail in political supports or produce constitutional disputes, and even face the policy dilemma of government inefficiency.

Keywords:reinventing government, national competitiveness, administrative guidelines, flexible employment policy, executive leadership, contract employee