The Civil Service Development of the Ministry of Home Affairs of Lao People's Democratic Republic

Abstract

The objective of the research on The Civil Service Development of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA) of Lao PDR is to study the Problems and obstacles in the Civil Service Development of the MOHA of Lao PDR. This research uses both in the quantitative and qualitative methodology. The quantitative uses the questionnaire as the tool for collecting the data from 206 public servants in MOHA of Lao PDR. The author uses the descriptive statistics by using frequency, percentage, and standard deviation. The qualitative uses the sample of 15 members for interviewing of administrations and the person who are responsible for public servant development of the MOHA of Lao PDR. The results of Problems and obstacles in the Civil Service Development of the MOHA of Lao PDR found that: 1. The MOHA of Lao PDR has not got a clearly policy enough on the development of public servant, lack of system, continuity in training and development. 2. Vision of senior managers have not given priority to the evaluation and human resource development. 3. Lack of the survey of the need in the training and development in each segment. 4. Lack of the budget on training and development of employees. 5. Lack of knowledge on foreign languages. 6. The coordination system and assigning the job position of the staff who is responsible for training and development are not clear.