Tạp chí Khoa học Viện Đại học Mở Hà Nội 56 (06/2019) 1-5 1 CADRE ASSESSMENT ATTACTS IMPORTANCE TO VIRTUE AND TALENT IN HO CHI MINH’s THOUGHT AND THE APPLICATION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF VIETNAM Nguyen Thi Phuong Chi* Date received the ariticle: 3/12/2018 Date recevied the review results: 4/6/2019 Date published the article: 27/6/2019 Abstract: In the revolutionary career, President Ho Chi Minh paid special attention to cadre work, he said, "cadre work is a very important issue, very necessary". Therefore, it is necessary to "Understand cadres". Thus, if cadre is the root of all work, assessing cadres rightly is the root of cadre work. Applying Ho Chi Minh's thought, it can be affirmed that assessing cadres and civil servants is an important content in the Party's viewpoints and State’s policies in order to build the regime of public administration, civil servants more professional and modern.
Keywords: civil servants; Ho Chi Minh's thought. The basic views of Ho Chi Minh "When accessing cadres, it is necessary to on cadre assessment attaching great see their study results as well as other work importance to virtue and talent results". First, about the evaluation criteria With a profound practical President Ho Chi Minh said that: the experience, President Ho Chi Minh pointed standards of cadres should be two-fold: out the experience of knowing good - bad "virtue" and "talent". "Morality is the root", officials as follows: "Those who usually cadres must regularly cultivate and practice show off their work, or ape, find small jobs morality, to become a true officer, "The to do, before follow orders, but then disobey revolutionary must be moral, if one does not orders, to attack others, or to flatter have morality, one can hardly lead the themselves, people like that, even if they people however talented one can be”.
In can do the job, are not good officials. Those addition to moral qualities, President Ho who go on to work, do not boast, speak Chi Minh said that cadres must have talent, righteously, do not hide their shortcomings, in which must focus on learning to improve do not eager for easy work, avoid hard their professional qualifications: “at work, always resolutely follow the orders of agencies, cadres must spend at least one the Party, their hearts don't change, hour learning every day”. He remind: however difficult the situation is, people * Institute of Party Building - Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics 2 Nghiên cứu trao đổi ● Research-Exchange of opinion like that, even if they work a bit poorly, are competence must be based on work results. That is, even though work However, this is a very complicated task, efficiency is an important criterion for because: "In the world, everything can assessing cadres, public-spiritedness and change.
The thought of people can also selflessness and moral quality are still very change. Therefore, how to consider officials important. President Ho Chi Minh thought should not be self-opinionated, because it that virtue is the root of talent, the person must also be transformed. The past, who really has morality the virtue will present and future of people are not always come.
Acknowledging, assessing officials the same". must take into account their development Cadre assessment is very important, ability on a solid foundation of so organizationa of the Party, the revolutionary morality. government and the top leaders must have a Second, about the evaluation comprehensive and general view of the method process of training and striving for each According to Ho Chi Minh, cadre officer. President Ho Chi Minh assessment must be true and accurate by emphasized: "Must know their strengths, "understanding cadres", "knowing cadres but also know their shortcomings, should clearly".
Cadre assessment must be not only see their work for a while, but must conducted regularly. Before considering also look at their work so far…. and appointing cadres, it is necessary to In order to properly assess cadres, it conduct a comprehensive cadre evaluation. must be based on the criteria and practical Ho Chi Minh requested: "Before results in an objective and comprehensive appointing, make a clear comment.
Not manner, based on the spirit of self-criticism only consider their work, but also consider and criticism. It is the spirit of self-criticism their way of living. Not only consider their and criticism of individuals, then way of writing and speaking, but they must contributed ideas by executive committee also consider whether their work is correct and units to build standards according to the with their words or articles. Not only how standards of revolutionary officials.
In this they consider us, but also how they consider way, it can avoid subjectiveness and one- others. We accept them well, and we have sidedness in assessing cadres. to consider whether many comrades accept 2. Applying Ho Chi Minh's them well or not".
In particular, it must be thought to assessing cadres and civil clear whether that person is close to the servants masses, has a public trust and admiration or Resolution No. 225-NQ/TW dated not. On the basis of careful consideration 20 February 1973 of the Politburo on the and evaluation of cadres and in many ways, work of cadres in the new period has set a the use of cadres can be accurate and common standard for all cadre of the Party effective. in the period of socialist revolution; The 4th President Ho Chi Minh advised, National Party Congress also stated, "The when considering and evaluating cadres, it basic standard of all cadres is always to was really objective, to understand cadres.
have enough both qualities and capacities In addition to political quality, moral corresponding to the demands of political character, the assessment of professional tasks in each revolutionary period, with the Nghiên cứu trao đổi ● Research-Exchange of opinion 3 requirements of the work assigned by the contents No.2 are: "1- Level of Party and the State"; Resolution No. 32- performance of assigned responsibilities NQ/TW dated 20 November 1980 of the and tasks: reflected in the volume, quality, Politburo on the organization, the policy of progress and efficiency of jobs in each "trying to improve the quality and capacity position, each time space; sense of of cadres". At the 5th National Party responsibility in work; 2. About political Congress emphasized: “In the standards of qualities, morality and lifestyle: political key leaders of the Party and State at all awareness and thought; the observance of levels, sectors and units, we need to pay guidelines and regulations of the Party, attention to political standards, professional policies and laws of the State; keeping standards and leadership skills, but work morality and a healthy lifestyle; anti- efficiency must be taken as the final bureaucracy, corruption, waste and other measure of standards”.
negative manifestations; spirit of learning to The 6th National Party Congress improve the level; honesty, sense of proposed a new way of reform, clearly discipline; spirit of self-criticism and defining requirements and standards of criticism; solidarity and relationship in cadres who must be challenged by political work; relationship, spirit and attitude of qualities, always standing firmly on the serving people". stance of the working class, smoothly and The 11th National Party Congress strictly abide by the Party's guidelines and continued to affirm and outline the general the State's policies, eager to learn, dynamic, direction of cadre work, which emphasized creative. cadre assessment: "Assessing and using The Resolution of the 6th session of cadres are based on standards and 6th Central Committee clearly stated: "It is procedures supplemented, perfected and necessary to specify the standards of cadres take practical job performance and trust of for each leadership and management title. the people as the main measure.
Timely There is no general quality and competence replacing weak cadres in terms of quality, standard”. competence and non-fulfillment. reduced Implementing the above viewpoint, prestige”. the Resolution of the 3rd plenum of the 8th Resolution of the 7rd plenum of the Central Committee issued a Resolution on 12th Central Executive Committee on "Staff strategy for the period of accelerating focusing on building a contingent of senior the industrialization and modernization of officials, especially at strategic level with the country", in which specifying a step of sufficient virtue, capacity and prestige on cadre standards in the new era.
In particular, par with their assigned tasks (Resolution the Resolution emphasized: "Those No. 26-NQ/ TW) set out 5 points of view, standards are closely related. Both virtue in which the content of the 4th point of view and talent are valued, virtue is root". refered to the harmonious and rational of Decision No.
286-QD/TW dated 8 the relationship between "virtue and talent, February 2010 of the 10th Politburo on in which virtue is root". “Promulgating the Regulation on assessing Which is the root, must be paid cadres and civil servants" mentioned three special attention to ensure stability, because contents of cadre assessment, in which if the foundation is not stable, everything 4 Nghiên cứu trao đổi ● Research-Exchange of opinion will wobble. In other words, virtue ensures work completed; work nature with talent used properly. The higher the rank of workload; work quality, completion time; cadre is, the stricter the moral standard must the number and value of the initiative has be.
benefited unit; credit ratings of the masses, Without virtue, that officer is not etc. Especially, the criteria for assessing used. Because the officers whose talent political ideology and cadre’s morality must lacks morality are dangerous when they be specified. only use their talent for individualism, Thirdly, reviewing and damaging the revolutionary career.
When supplementing cadre’s standards, ensuring having virtue officers must focus on talent, objectivity. The Party affirmed to take the because if morality ensures talents operated political character, moral qualities, in the right direction, bringing good value to competence, and effective performance of the Party, the country, and the people, then tasks to assess, promote and appoint cadres. the talent is guaranteed for working In different professions, it is necessary to set efficiently, the ability to complete tasks. up a standard of duty to have a basis for The thought of President Ho Chi assessment, selection and appointment of Minh on cadre assessment is very valuable cadres.
It is also a basis for each officer to instructions for the Party to always inherit, evaluate himself and have directions and apply to the work of building cadres. At the solutions for striving according to 12th National Party Congress, the Party standards. Cadre standards must be specific frankly admitted: "Cadre assessment is still and meet the requirements of each stage of the weakest stage in many terms but there socio-economic development. are no specific criteria and scientific Fourthly, focusing on inspection solutions to overcome".
In order to well and supervision. Inspection and supervision assess cadres according to Ho Chi Minh's must be conducted from both sides. The thought and the Resolution of the 12th inspection and supervision reduce National Party Congress, it is necessary to bureaucracy and limit negativeness in cadre synchronize the following solutions: assessment. Besides, the inspection and Firstly, raising the awareness of supervision will make cadres work more cadres and Party members about the responsibly in the assigned works, enhance importance and responsibility of cadres and professional ethics, avoid bad habits arising Party members in the implementation of during work process.
This also can help to cadre assessment. In order to overcome avoid the loss of talented people but formalism, the quality of cadre assessment declined moral, or those who have good should be considered as a criterion for moral but are not active in professional evaluating and classifying cadres at the development. Fifthly, cadre assessment is a Secondly, urgently building a difficult and sensitive work, so this work system of evaluation criteria with high needs to be summarized and learned quality. In order to evaluate the regularly to find ways to implement effectiveness of work, it is necessary to effectively and replicate excellent have specific criteria such as the number of examples.