BASIC APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING THE ESSENCE OF THE CONCEPT OF "PUBLIC SERVICE"

Abstract

The article deals with the consideration of the
legislative understanding of the notion of civil
service, an analysis of scientific positions of
scientists on the clarification of the terminological
understanding of the concept of "civil service" in the
process of reforming the civil service system in
Ukraine. The public service is considered broadly
and narrowly from the point of view of the
professional activities of those working in it, but this
approach only reveals the professional side of the
civil service, and not its understanding as a whole,
because it does not take into account the tasks and
social orientation of the civil service, as well Does
not reveal its functional significance for society as a whole. The scientific positions of the scientist concerning the understanding of the civil service as a labor activity, as a political institution, which combines the fulfillment of the tasks of the state in a complex relation with human resources and social orientation in the activity of the state and as a separate social institute, as well as on the basis of the research, formulated their own understanding. The notion of civil service.
Key words: public service, activity, professionalism, publicity, social orientation.