Impact Measurement of Public Administration Training Module on Civil Servant Capacity Development: A Case of Bangladesh Civil Service
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Impact Measurement, Public Administration Module, Civil Service Training, Capacity Development, BangladeshAbstract
Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC) has the mandate to impart career training for civil servants of Bangladesh. The Foundation Training Course (FTC) is one of the most important civil servant capacity-building courses. As a ‘Centre of Excellence, BPATC plays an active role in mitigating human resources demand at the national level to provide effective, inclusive, self-mandated, and personalized training for the public sector in Bangladesh. Therefore, the study aims to determine how satisfied trainees are in terms of receiving skill, knowledge, and attitude; to identify training modules contained in terms of must know, should know and nice to know, and assess modules' impact on capacity development for the civil servants. A structured questionnaire was administered for data collection from the trainees who participated in the P-63rd FTC at BPATC to achieve research objectives. The ‘Public Administration’ training module has four sub-modules and module contents have given reliability validation that shows training contents as per module items were internally consistent at the level of satisfaction. The descriptive statistics results and the frequency per cent results have shown that trainees are somehow satisfied with the recipient of training at BPATC. Again, the significant finding has shown which contents must know and should know for fostering competencies in liquidating their quotidian activities. This research has also done Pearson correlation and ANOVA, regression with the coefficient result, and found that the regression model is significant and explains 40.1% of the total variance. Moreover, ‘public sector management; and ‘integrity in public administration’ sub-modules of public administration have a significant impact on the capacity development of civil servants to discharge their duties in service life. Lastly, a policy suggestion is drawn for the curriculum committee to redesign training curricula and their delivery method, particularly for public servants, as a tool for human resource development.
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