EVALUATION OF CHANGES IN THE MOTIVATION SYSTEM FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT STAFF (Ocena zmian w systemie motywacyjnym pracowników samorzadowych)

This paper is a report on pilot research conducted among city and borough councils as well as the starosty (country-level) offices of the Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship in February of 2010. One of the aims of the research was an evaluation of the potential for utilizing office in–house staff (internal promotion), an assessment the obligation of continuous skill and professional qualification improvement, and the legitimacy of changes in defining ways and procedures for worker assessments in the units, as well as of qualification requirements and detailed remuneration terms.