The Romanian public administration reform is on the working agenda of the governments since more than a decade and a half. Its objectives require a corps of professional civil servants, career civil servants, with adequate training, able to achieve a new interface within the relations with the...

Intrinsic motivation is widely considered by public administration scholars as fundamental for the Public Service Motivation (PSM). In apparently contradiction with the theory of PSM, the extrinsic motivation techniques, such as financial incentives, function better in Romanian public...

The paper achieves an analysis of some issues concerning the changes in the Romanian public administration in the context of integration into the European Union. The most important processes approach Europeanization and its theoretical and practical mechanisms. Concerning the Romanian public...