Features of personnel motivation in the civil service

The problem of the individual civil servant motivation has become important one under the conditions prevailing in Ukraine at the present stage of its development. Address the challenges facing modern Ukrainian society is possible only if the appropriate motivational bases have been created. The motivational bases could encourage civil service staff for efficient action.The article analyzes the features of civil service personnel motivation. It was found that in theoretical terms motivation of human behavior is a very complex and largely poorly understood phenomenon. There are many definitions of motivation developed by foreign and domestic authors who interpret this phenomenon differently. It was analyzed the scientific approaches to defining the essence of such concepts as «motivation», «public service personnel motivation», «work motivation», «financial motivation», «labor motivation», «status motivation». The author defines motivation as a process of prompting man to action through comprehensive internal and external factors to achieve the goals of the organization. It was determined that the motivation of public officials affects their performance and focuses on achieving of organizational goals.The motivation is the driving force that is based on meeting specific needs, forces act with maximum effort to achieve certain goals. The classification of motivation has been created according to the major groups of needs (material, labor and status ones), the means (regulatory, coercive, stimulating ones), the source of (domestic and foreign) and the areas of achievement (positive, conducive to effective attainment of the objectives and negative that preventing it).It is clearly proved that motivation not only ensures proper working activities, but also promotes professional development and career development of civil servants. Motivation of working activity can not be effective without the use of modern forms and methods of material incentives for staff. Incentives must meet the needs, interests and abilities of a civil servant. It is about the use of such forms and methods of stimulating individuals that would contribute to the high efficiency of their work.The problems and the current state of civil servants motivation are investigated. The author reveals the contents of the new Law of Ukraine «On Civil Service» in the context of civil servants motivation and determines the ways of improving civil servants motivation in Ukraine.