Transfer of achieved managerial and leadership competencies in the Belgian federal administration

Since 2001 an educational programme in public management has been organised for the Belgian federal public sector. Its main aim is to create a pool of experts and managers capable of supporting the modernisation of the public sector. The graduated civil servants have been asked to fill in a survey to find out whether they apply their acquired knowledge and skills. One of the major purposes of this survey is to define where knowledge transfer problems occur in the individual, the educational program and the organisation itself. The first statistical analyses seem to reveal that the successful use of public management expertise depends on the individual and that active support from the organisation is non existing. Interesting is that transfer from those programs mainly has two different forms: the use of insight in daily work and a reflection framework for the public sector’s future.status: publishe