Value and meaning dominant of public service and human resource management policy of public authorities: ways of harmonization

This paper examines the harmonization of the spirit of the Law on the Federal Civil Service of the Russian Federation as a social and public legal institution of public service enshrined in the Constitution of the Russian Federation and its letter—the visually perceived text. It identifies the causes of their inconsistency and the consequences reflected both in the provisions of the Law itself and its enforcement practice. For this purpose, the author studies the content of the Law governing the moral aspect of the civil service, revealing its spiritual and moral foundations, and constituting the value and semantic basis for the comprehensive assessment of civil servants during the development of the professional pool of the civil service. It focuses on the development and legitimization of the terminology of the Russian civil service, primarily the definition of the key concept of state civil service provided by the Law, which is only limited by its functions, leaving a whole block of questions related to the general goal of the state personnel policy, i.e. the development of worthy heirs of the best national traditions of the Russian civil service motivated to serve society, protected by immunity to corruption, devoted to the Motherland and their occupation, as the most important factor in ensuring the trust of individuals in authorities and the stable society, outside the scope of theoretical understanding and practical actions; new terms introduced into the legal framework of the civil service, and concepts borrowed from other terminological systems without due regard of the specific nature of civil service as a social institution. To implement the unimplemented provisions of the laws on civil service and the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation related to strengthening the value and semantic foundations of civil service, a set of measures is proposed that will contribute to the balance of the spirit and letter of the Law in its application, the spiritual and moral development of civil servants as a guarantee of the implementation of public service mission, increasing individuals’ trust in public institutions, overcoming the moral deficit, and combating corruption in the civil service system.