As a central part of its recovery plan, the government is planning a reform of the General State Administration (GSA). Its principal components are gender equality, promoting diversity and inclusion for greater social responsibility, upgrading HRM systems with, inter alia, the recognition of horizontal career paths (mobility across positions at the same hierarchical level) and performance appraisals at all echelons.

The Swedish Agency for Government Employers has set out its new strategy for HR policy in the coming years. Under the banner “Tomorrow’s Employer – government skills helping society to develop”, it revolves around three goals: appeal, leadership and innovation. Each goal contains suggestions for action plans which the departments are encouraged to roll out on the basis of their activity or specific features.

Having been awarded a first prize in the “human resources” category by Territoria (French Public Innovation Monitoring Centre), the approach, which has been tailored to the local authority context, earmarks resources for the region’s civil servants who decide to commit to becoming “intrapreneurs” and solve the problems that they have flagged up. A hackathon led to six projects being chosen and an in-house incubator provides support to the candidates.