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I. Context and aim of the Court of Accounts’ Human Resources Strategy
for the period 2011-2014
Context
In keeping with the INTOSAI Guide on the institutional
capacity building of Supreme Audit Institutions, drafted in 2007
by the members of Sub-Committee 1 on institutional capacity
strengthening, chaired by the National Audit Office of Great
Britain, there are a number of areas concerning Human Resources
(HR) which are important in terms of ensuring that the RCoA
provides a high quality service.
The Guide states that „capacity” means the skills, knowledge,
structures and ways of working that make an organisation
effective. Building capacity means developing further each of
these, building on existing strengths, and addressing gaps and
weaknesses. This HR Strategy seeks to define the ways in which
this will be done, in the short and medium term (covering the
period 2011-2014) .
The Guide considers certain more detailed topics where
capacity building has direct HR consequences. Three categories of
capacity building are identified, namely professional audit
capacity, organisational capacity and capacity to deal with the
external environment.
Analysing these further, the following issues have very
significant HR impact:
- Developing/training staff
- Work planning and management
- Quality assurance
- Forward planning
- Leadership
- Managing resources
This HR Strategy follows on from the development of the
Institutional Development Strategy, which identified a number
of crucial HR-related activities that needed to be taken. In
many ways, the delivery of all seven strategic objectives in the
Institutional Development Strategy is impacted by HR activities,
but there are two in particular where this is strongly the case.
These are specific objective 4 in the Institutional
Development Strategy which includes elements on making
managerial and support processes more efficient and specific
objective 6 which looks at increasing the professionalism of
Human Resources Strategy of the Romanian Court of Accounts