Organizational structure of a state agency: concept, typology and directions of application to the system of the National Police of Ukraine

Abstract

The author of the paper has analyzed the general theoretical approaches to determining the content and characteristics of the organizational structures of state agencies; has formulated the key principles for the formation of organizational structures. Based on the research of scientific works on the theory of public administration, administrative law, management, public management, the author has formulated own definition of the concept of “organizational structure of the National Police of Ukraine”.
 The author has offered to understand it as a set of interrelated positions, structural and separate units of the National Police, which constitutes a single system of units and levels of management, and is formed in order to accomplish the assigned tasks for the provision of police services and implementation of assigned powers. It is established by regulatory acts adopted by the authorized agencies (individuals) within their own competence in compliance with a specific procedure.
 The routine activities of the National Police of Ukraine are carried out in strict order determined by the regulatory acts, are characterized by a high formality of management procedures, constant organizational relations, and therefore its organizational structure belongs to rigid (bureaucratic) type structures according to its characteristics.
 If we consider the system of the National Police of Ukraine on the national scale, its organizational structure refers to the divisional type, since it contains relatively separate territorial and interterritorial units that have certain autonomy in exercising their activities and management decisions. If we consider organizational structures of the central apparatus, territorial and interterritorial agencies, then their structures belong to the linear and functional type.
 The results obtained by the author are an integral part of the author’s research on the topic “Public management within the National Police of Ukraine” and can be used in carrying out similar fundamental and applied research in the field of optimization of management activities of state and law enforcement agencies.

Peculiarities of the Influence of Economic Sciences on the Formation of Administrative and Legal Nomenclature

“…Based on the current positions of the theory of administrative law, such a conclusion is inconsistent with the doctrinal provisions of the relevant science. Examining the features of internal organisational activities of executive authorities through the prism of the category of "public administration", it is possible to conclude that the head of a particular state body, who has official relations with his subordinates and applies disciplinary measures to them, is a public administration body (Buhaichuk, 2020). This conclusion also does not correspond to the current trends in the development of administrative law science.…”

On the Feasibility of Using the Concept of Management as a Category of Administrative Law

“…For example, K. Buhaichuk, examining the place of public administration in administrative law terminology, states: "Public administration should be regarded from the standpoint of public management as an activity carried out within the system of a public administration entity and be aimed at optimizing its organizational structure, developing and making managerial decisions, planning and coordinating the work of all stakeholders, rational distribution of powers, and maintenance of information, personnel, documentary, psychological, scientific and financial support" (Buhaichuk, 2020). Thus, K. Buhaichuk recognizes the existence of public management, hinting that management today should be divided into two types depending on the application scope -private and public.…”

“…10 No. 1, 2024 (Buhaichuk, 2020), not a legal category. The science of administrative law often borrows categories of other sciences for analyzing administrative law phenomena and processes, and this happens only when there are no relevant conceptual analogs in administrative law terminology.…”