Indira Rystina, Abyz Sadu, Bibigul Bulegenova, Marina Onuchko, Aigul Kozhakhmetova
The present study critically evaluates and analyses several models of public service reform and their applications within the framework of reforming the Kazakhstan state service system. The main driving force of national development is the public services that implement government policy and solve issues of strategic development of the country and the everyday life of people. Authors stressed on the key features of positive image of public servants relying on the expectations of society. The result is a dynamic reform processes over the last 20 years created a national model of public service, with its characteristics and peculiarities, which are caused by the system of state management and socio-political structure of Kazakhstan. The authors emphasized the priority principles of the administrative reform, which became a new stage in the formation of effective public administration. Authors explored, analysed and compared the different models of civil services implemented in the European countries, USA and Asia, and examined the innovations and effectiveness of the Law “On state service of the Republic of Kazakhstan”. Authors also developed their recommendations to ensure professionalism and stability of personnel in the public service and to adapt the establishing civil service system to new economic conditions and implementation of internal and external policy of the state.