General Secretary and President To Lam attended the opening ceremony of the 14th Party Central Committee Planning Cadre Training Course, October 14, 2024 _Photo: VNA
Content, position and role of staff work in the field of Party building and organization
According to the Vietnamese Dictionary, advising is: “1. Giving opinions, helping the commander in formulating and organizing the implementation of military plans; 2. Giving opinions on policies, plans and measures for a person or an organization” (1). Thus, advising is giving opinions, proposing, recommending on policies, plans, content, fields, stages according to the goals and requirements that need advising.
Advisory work is a synthesis of work, activities, and measures carried out according to a specific process of an organization or individual with professionalism and profession in accordance with organizational and operational principles, meeting the requirements of organizations or individuals needing advice on policies, content, and certain work with identified goals and requirements. Advisory work in the field of Party organization and building is research and proposal based on scientific and practical grounds to help leaders have a basis for making decisions and effectively organizing the implementation of work in the field of Party organization and building.
Strategic advisory work in the field of Party organization and building is advisory work at the central level, advising the Central Executive Committee, directly the Politburo and the Secretariat on the organization and personnel work of the entire Party. In particular, the Central Organization Committee plays the role of the agency primarily responsible for implementing strategic advisory work on Party organization and building. In addition, there is coordination between Party agencies at the central level, the personnel organization departments and offices in central agencies, the organization committees of Party committees at all levels and related agencies.
The content of the advisory work in the field of Party organization and building includes building and managing the organization, apparatus, payroll, civil servants and public employees in the political system; building the Party organization system; building and managing the Party members; cadre work; protecting internal politics. The strategic advisory work of the Party agencies at the Central level on the field of Party organization and building is carried out by the following main methods: Advising on planning the Party's guidelines and policies; advising the Central Executive Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat on directing the implementation, directly issuing documents guiding the implementation, inspecting, supervising the implementation, directly organizing the implementation of Party documents; summarizing, concluding, and evaluating the results of implementing Party documents on Party organization and building; conducting research, analysis, consulting, and strategic forecasting on organization and cadre work in each period; providing comments; inspecting; Appraise documents, projects... of agencies in the political system related to Party building and organization work; propose, preside over or coordinate in implementing scientific research topics and projects, and develop theories in the field of Party building and organization.
The important position and role of strategic advisory work in the field of Party organization and building, first of all, comes from the special importance of the Party organization and building sector. In the overall work of Party building and rectification, the work of Party organization and building has always been emphasized by our Party and has been increasingly deeply recognized through the congress terms. From the goal set out in the Resolution of the 4th Central Conference (term XII) "Resolutely overcome weaknesses in personnel work and personnel management; build a contingent of cadres and party members, especially leaders and managers at all levels with steadfast political will, ethics, responsibility, capacity and correct motivation, truly pioneering, exemplary, always putting the interests of the collective, the nation and the people above personal interests, truly being cadres of the people, serving the people. Strengthening the people's trust in the Party" (2), the Political Report of the 13th National Party Congress demonstrated an important development in viewpoints and awareness when emphasizing the first element in the general development goal for the coming years: "Improving the leadership capacity, governing capacity and fighting strength of the Party; building a clean and strong Party and political system in all aspects" (3), in line with emphasizing and including "Strengthening the building and rectification of a clean and strong Party and political system" as the first element in the theme of the 13th National Party Congress. This is a new development in thinking, continuing to clarify the direction of building the Party's leadership and governing capacity as set out in the Platform for national construction in the transitional period to socialism (Supplemented and developed in 2011). The documents of the 13th National Party Congress have fully and deeply demonstrated the importance of Party building and organization work in the context of the Party being in power, building and perfecting the socialist rule-of-law state, developing a socialist-oriented market economy and integrating into the world. The report summarizing the work of Party building and the implementation of the Party Charter has presented five lessons; in which, the third lesson emphasizes that “We must deeply imbue the viewpoint that cadre work is a “key” task of Party building, related to the survival of the Party and the fate of the regime; cadres are the root of all work, the decisive factor in the success or failure of the revolution” (4). As one of the leadership methods of the ruling Party, the work of Party organization and building must do a good job of advising on the organization and arrangement of the apparatus of the political system and improving operational efficiency, building a team of qualified and qualified cadres for the Party to ensure the implementation of the goal of building a clean and strong Party and political system in all aspects, building a streamlined state apparatus that operates effectively and efficiently. In other words, doing a good job of Party organization and building makes an important contribution to enhancing the ruling position, affirming the leadership role and correct guidelines of the Party, and is an important condition to ensure the development goals until 2025, 2030, and 2045 as set out by the 13th National Congress.
In any field, staff work plays a very important role in the development of an agency, unit, or organization. The staff department of a unit is built with the right function to help leaders make decisions accurately, reasonably, and effectively as well as increase the effectiveness of the organization implementing decisions. Staff products are the input in the process of making decisions and final decisions of the leader. The more scientific the arguments, theoretical and practical basis of the staff product, the more accurate the leader's decision will be, creating efficiency for the development and progress of the agency, unit, or organization. On the contrary, if the staff product is unreasonable and unfeasible, the leader's decision making will encounter many difficulties and will not be suitable for reality.
Requirements for strategic consulting work in the field of Party building and organization
First, the requirement for quality of advice.
Consulting must ensure quality, must be accurate, must have vision based on data analysis, information with scientific basis, ensuring feasibility. To advise and propose quality, ensure accuracy and correctness, the staff doing consulting work in the field of Party organization and building must have professional qualifications and capacity, have full information, grasp the Party's policies and guidelines on Party organization and building, must be honest and objective; consulting products must be realistic, ensuring feasibility. Staff working must uphold personal responsibility for consulting and proposing issues; must not be subjective, voluntaristic and must have strategic vision, far-sighted and deep; must calculate and anticipate advantages, difficulties, risks, including possible objective and subjective impacts to proactively propose timely and effective solutions to prevent and overcome.
Second, ensure compliance with the Party's policies and guidelines on Party building and organization work.
Consulting on the field of Party organization and building must be based on the functions and tasks of the organizing committees at all levels; grasping, thoroughly understanding, and seriously implementing the Party's guidelines and policies on Party organization and building work, closely following the leadership and direction of the Central Executive Committee, the Politburo, the Secretariat, and Party committees at all levels. Consulting must be based on current regulations of the Party, not arbitrarily following the subjective thoughts and wishes of the individual consultant and proposer. In consulting and proposing to solve assigned tasks, if the implementation of assigned tasks and issues encounter difficulties arising from the practical application of regulations, it is necessary to report, recommend, and propose to competent authorities for research, amendment, and supplementation.
Third, ensure that the consultation content is objective and honest.
This principle comes from the requirement to ensure the quality and accuracy of the issues of consultation and proposal. In other words, compliance with this principle creates the basis and ensures that the issues of consultation and proposal are accurate and of high quality. Only on the basis of analysis, mastering the scientific arguments, theoretical and practical bases of Party organization and building can the staff member advise and propose effective and appropriate programs, plans and implementation solutions.
Consulting must be based on reality or the objective reality of the work and tasks being solved, and the ability to realize them. Information must be synthesized and filtered from many sources, closely following the Party's tasks, ensuring political orientation, accuracy and timeliness. Respecting the principle of objectivity will eliminate subjective and voluntaristic factors in consulting. Respecting the principle of objectivity in consulting ensures feasibility and realism, achieving high results. The quality of consulting work in the field of Party building organization is closely related to the quality of summarizing practices and theoretical research. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen summarizing practices and summarizing the implementation of new organizational models, in order to draw out regular issues, gaps and shortcomings to provide scientific arguments to perfect guidelines, policies, and recommend solutions in leadership and implementation.
Honest advice is an objective requirement, a very important principle in advice work, ensuring that advice work is correct and accurate. This principle requires that staff doing advice work in the field of Party organization and building must have sufficient knowledge, talent, virtue, be straightforward, honest, and objective in advising and making recommendations to leaders. If advice is not honest, it will lead to negativity in personnel work, creating conditions for the emergence of factionalism, "group interests", localism, etc. in personnel work.
Fourth, promote the responsibility of the collective and individual advisors.
Promoting responsibility is the duty of the collective and individual advisors in the face of the trust and entrustment of superiors to limit unnecessary mistakes and risks that may occur. The collective and individual advisors must be extremely careful, consider, calculate thoroughly, and must foresee the consequences. If the advice and proposals are incorrect or inaccurate, the individual and the collective must take responsibility. The advisor must commit to the leader about the accuracy of the issues they advise and propose.
Member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Organization Commission Le Minh Hung works with the Standing Committee of the Tuyen Quang Provincial Party Committee on preparations for party congresses at all levels _Photo: VNA
Factors affecting the quality of strategic advice in the field of Party building and organization
One is the leadership, direction and assignment of tasks by the Party Committee.
The sharp and wise leadership and direction of the Party Committee plays a decisive role, creating the foundation for the staff work to develop in the right direction and achieve high efficiency. Through assigning staff work tasks, the Party Committee not only assigns tasks to subordinates, but also creates favorable conditions for them through material support, funding, and appropriate mechanisms; thereby, demonstrating trust and encouraging and motivating the staff agency and staff to maximize their roles and responsibilities in the working process. In reality, places where the Party Committee focuses on and cares about assigning tasks to staff work will achieve high quality and efficiency in this work; at the same time, making the staff team fully develop their abilities and capacities. On the contrary, in places where the Party Committee does not focus on or does not clarify the requirements when assigning tasks, the staff agency and staff team often encounter difficulties in promoting their roles and capacities. The more specific the content of the assignment is, the clearer the orientation and the more sensitive to the development trend, the more it helps to improve the quality and effectiveness of the staff work. The accuracy and timeliness in shaping the content of the assignment not only helps the staff agency understand the goals and requirements, but also creates conditions for them to apply scientific and creative working methods, thereby being able to solve complex problems.
Second, the organization and staff of the advisory agency.
The organizational apparatus of the advisory body needs to be consolidated, streamlined, and operate effectively and efficiently, in accordance with the requirements and tasks of the new period. The staff of the advisory body in the field of Party organization and building must meet the common standards of a cadre and party member. That is: Having a level of understanding of political theory, the Party's viewpoints and guidelines, and the State's policies and laws; having cultural and professional qualifications, sufficient capacity and health to work effectively, meeting the requirements and assigned tasks. Party organization and building is a very difficult industry and profession because it is related to the organization of the apparatus of the political system, affecting people and their status in society. Therefore, those who do advisory work in the field of Party organization and building need to have a steadfast spirit, a pure heart, a discerning "eye", to look at people to correctly assess the capacity of the cadres...
Third, the conditions to ensure the work of the staff.
To promote the creativity of the staff, it is necessary to create a truly democratic working environment, so that staff can access information sources fully and directly on issues related to their fields and tasks. Staff always want to be trusted by leaders, boldly entrust work and create a proactive position for staff to carry out their tasks. The trust of the organization and the leader in staff is an important basis for promoting creativity, boldly researching, proposing new ideas, exploring, discovering new things and improving the quality of staff. Along with creating a democratic, open and transparent working environment for staff to promote democracy in discussing and debating issues, expressing personal opinions, having dialogue with leaders at all levels, being listened to and understood, ...; It is also necessary to create a mechanism so that staff can confidently conduct scientific criticism on issues related to policies and projects that will be considered and decided by leaders at all levels.
In addition, the innovation of regimes, mechanisms and policies for the staff must create positive motivation to attract more and more virtuous, talented and promising cadres to work at the Party's staff agencies. Therefore, it is necessary to have a synchronous policy from recruitment, attraction, training, fostering, staff use regime, opportunities for professional development, to remuneration policies...
In addition, another important requirement is to focus on investing adequately in information, documents, and databases so that advisory agencies are provided with accurate, complete, and timely information to serve research work, thereby creating conditions to propose appropriate advisory opinions to leaders at all levels.
Fourth, the coordination and combination mechanism in strategic advisory work between party committees.
Advising on the field of Party building and organization is advising on organization building and personnel work, so it is an interdisciplinary, comprehensive task, related to many other fields, such as inspection, supervision, internal affairs... Therefore, to improve the quality and effectiveness of advising on the field of Party building and organization, an important requirement is to have a mechanism for effective coordination and combination between Party committees. It is necessary to ensure the principle: A task is assigned to only one committee or one agency to preside over and take primary responsibility, other committees and agencies are responsible for coordinating to carry out common tasks.
Fifth, the positivity, proactiveness, creativity and professionalism of the consulting subject.
Strategic consulting does not mean being passive, waiting for superiors to order or make requests before starting to research, propose, and advise. The consulting agency and the strategic consulting staff must be proactive, creative, proactive in researching, summarizing practices, grasping theoretical, scientific, and practical bases, accurately forecasting the situation, in order to proactively propose and advise on new organizational models and new plans to solve the "bottlenecks" that practice is posing. The positivity, proactiveness, creativity, and professionalism in organizing and implementing consulting activities of the consulting entity are decisive for the quality of consulting.
However, it is also necessary to pay attention to the fact that cadres in general and staff officers in the field of Party organization and building all have the need to advance and develop their careers, so it is necessary to create the right motivation for the activeness of cadres. Therefore, the Party Committee is responsible for creating a healthy and objective working environment, with appropriate remuneration and reward mechanisms, valuing talented people to arouse the positivity, proactiveness and creativity of strategic staff officers in the field of Party organization and building./.
Dr. TRAN THI MINH
Director of the Institute of Organizational Science and Personnel, Central Organizing Committee
(To be continued)
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(1) Great Vietnamese Dictionary, Culture and Information Publishing House, Hanoi, 1999, p. 1523
(2) See: Resolution No. 04-NQ/TW, dated October 30, 2016, of the 4th Central Conference, Session XII, “On strengthening Party building and rectification; preventing and repelling the degradation of political ideology, morality, lifestyle, and manifestations of “self-evolution” and “self-transformation” within the Party”, https://tulieuvankien.dangcongsan.vn/van-kien-tu-lieu-ve-dang/hoi-nghi-bch-trung-uong/khoa-xii/nghi-quyet-so-04nq-tw-ngay-30102016-hoi-nghi-lan-thu-tu-ban-chap-hanh-trung-uong-dang-khoa-xii-ve-tang-cuong-xay-dung-chinh-550
(3) Documents of the 13th National Congress of Delegates, National Political Publishing House Truth, Hanoi, 2021, vol. I, p. 111
(4) Documents of the 13th National Congress of Delegates, op. cit., vol. II, p. 226
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