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2016考研英語(yǔ)閱讀題源經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人文章：提升公務(wù)員工作動(dòng)力

Reforming Leviathan

處于改革浪潮中的龐大機(jī)構(gòu)

Mandarin lessons

政府官員的經(jīng)驗(yàn)之談

Governments need to rethink how they reward andmotivate civil servants

政府需要重新思考如何去獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)和提升公務(wù)員的工作動(dòng)力。

THE French call them hauts fonctionnaires, theGermans Beamte im h?heren Dienst and the British, somewhat more economically, know themas “mandarins”. The senior echelons of civil services are a powerful arm of the state. Theyimplement the reforms dreamed up by politicians, and design public services ranging fromwelfare systems to prisons. Compared with private-sector bosses, the bureaucrats who managethe public sector tend to be less well paid but have more cushioned lives, with more securejobs and far less pressure to improve productivity. Now the mandarins face change.

法語(yǔ)中稱呼他們?yōu)楣俜饺藛T，德語(yǔ)叫做高級(jí)公務(wù)員，英國(guó)則各位簡(jiǎn)短稱呼公務(wù)員為政界要員。公務(wù)員的高層人員是國(guó)家的一個(gè)強(qiáng)大的臂膀。他們實(shí)現(xiàn)政客對(duì)于改革的設(shè)想，并構(gòu)思計(jì)劃公共服務(wù)，涵蓋面從福利制度到監(jiān)獄。與私營(yíng)部門(mén)的老板相比，負(fù)責(zé)管理公共部門(mén)的官員往往不太高薪，但擁有更多的緩沖生活，更安全的工作，對(duì)于提高工作效率方面，其承受的壓力遠(yuǎn)不如私營(yíng)老板。現(xiàn)在的政府高級(jí)官員們面臨著改變。

There has long been taxpayer fury when big projects go awry. Berlin's new airport is threeyears overdue and predicted to cost 6 billion (8.1 billion), three times the original estimate.But voters, and thus politicians, are especially intolerant of civil-service inefficiency nowadays.One prompt is austerity. Another is technology, which is changing not only how public servicesare delivered—think of “massively open online courses” in education—but also the way they canbe measured. Social networks enable users to grumble about hospital waiting-times andmathematics results. Perhaps the biggest pressure is the passing of time: private-sectorworkers are incredulous as to why civil servants should escape the creative destruction thathas changed other offices around the world.

長(zhǎng)期以來(lái)，大項(xiàng)目出差錯(cuò)時(shí)納稅人會(huì)因而感到十分憤怒。柏林新機(jī)場(chǎng)建設(shè)已有三年逾期，并且預(yù)計(jì)耗資60億歐元(81億人民幣)，三倍于原來(lái)的預(yù)算。但在現(xiàn)今，選民和政客尤其無(wú)法忍受公務(wù)員服務(wù)效率低下。其中一個(gè)提示便是緊縮政策。另一個(gè)則是技術(shù)，這不僅正在改變公共服務(wù)的提供方式—思考“大規(guī)模開(kāi)放式在線課程”的教育—但同時(shí)也是在思考他們可以被評(píng)估的方式。社交網(wǎng)絡(luò)讓用戶有機(jī)會(huì)抱怨醫(yī)院候診室漫長(zhǎng)的等待時(shí)間和自己的數(shù)學(xué)成績(jī)。或許最大的壓力是時(shí)間的流逝：私營(yíng)部門(mén)的工作人員對(duì)于為何公務(wù)員要逃避已經(jīng)改變了全球政府各部的創(chuàng)造性破壞表示質(zhì)疑。

The reform of the public sector is a huge project, but people are at the centre of it.Government is a service industry, and there is a basic talent problem. A few civil services—Singapore's is the obvious example—compete with the private sector for the bestgraduates. But elsewhere even elite departments, such as the US Treasury and Britain'sForeign Office, struggle (or lose high-flyers quickly). The mandarins and their political mastersneed to change tack.

公共部門(mén)的改革是一項(xiàng)龐大的工程，需要以人民為中心。政府是一個(gè)服務(wù)行業(yè)，并且存在一個(gè)基本的人才問(wèn)題。一些民事部門(mén)—如新加坡的民事部門(mén)就是一個(gè)明顯的例子—他們能夠與私營(yíng)部門(mén)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)優(yōu)秀人才。但在其他地方，即使是精英部門(mén)，如美國(guó)財(cái)政部和英國(guó)外交部，也同樣存在斗爭(zhēng)(或很快失去極高報(bào)負(fù)者)。政府官員和他們的政治領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者需要改變策略。

Too many civil servants, especially in continental Europe, swirl around a bureaucraticGormenghast but rarely leave it. Nearly four-fifths of German senior public servants have beenin public administration for more than two decades. The French state under Franois Hollande isgoverned by a caste of unsackable functionaries, resistant to reform. One reason manyofficials become stuck is their generous pension deals: making pensions portable should be apriority. But career structures also must adapt.

太多的公務(wù)員，尤其是在歐洲大陸的公務(wù)員，他們漩渦在具有官僚政治的古老王國(guó)歌門(mén)鬼城身旁，但很少會(huì)選擇離開(kāi)它。近五分之四的德國(guó)高級(jí)公務(wù)員已經(jīng)在公共管理中工作超過(guò)二十年。整個(gè)法國(guó)處于奧朗德?tīng)顟B(tài)，由固若金湯的社會(huì)團(tuán)體所管轄，他們抵制改革。其中一個(gè)原因是，很多官員被慷慨的養(yǎng)老金交易卡住：使得養(yǎng)老金可攜帶成為一個(gè)必須考慮的優(yōu)先事項(xiàng)。但是，職業(yè)結(jié)構(gòu)也必須作出適當(dāng)改變。