Capacity-Building and Strategy: Aligning of Collaboration for Civil Service
Chih-Wei Chen*
Abstract
Since Taiwan is just beginning to promote strategic public human resources management, there are lots of management practices for us to improve its quality. The purpose of this article is to research the necessity of collaborative capability building for the civil service with documental analysis, since they have to deal with more and more cross-boundary issues or issues of intergovernmental relations. To increase public organization capacity, this paper takes collaboration capability as a strategic issue, and argues that it has to be aligned into strategic management process, that is, the strategic alignment. As a result, the strategic public human resource management can be realized, and more attention can be paid to the strategic management in public sector.
This paper takes collaborative capability as a vital strategic capacity. Then, the paper discusses the conditions and approaches of collaborative capability building. Finally, this article argues that collaboration capability should be aligned to missions, visions, values, goals, stakeholders, and accountability of public organizations, and that strategic capability of collaboration is not exclusive to top management, but involves all echelons of public organizations. This article concludes that legislations of public strategic human resources management should be emphasized so that the goals of strategic alignment could be achieved.
Keywords: collaboration capability, strategic alignment, strategic public human resource management.
* Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Tamkang University.