Project data

Summary of the project

The research project - in cooperation with administrative districts from Thuringia, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia - is investigating personnel management structures in times of a shortage of skilled labour.

For this purpose Interviews with key persons from the district administrations. The research focusses on the career paths of administrative employees with a focus on general administration.

Of particular interest are, among other things, the careers of administrative assistants and who is sent as a candidate to an administrative study programme in the higher civil service. The aim is to be able to make practical recommendations for optimising personnel management and personnel marketing that can be implemented in the short term.