municipal employees

The professionalization of municipal employees as a continuous process of identification, originating in a specific socio-historical context is discussed in the article. Based on previously published data of the comparative sociological research conducted between February–March 2015 in France and in Russia, the conclusion about the impact of social and economic transformations taking place in a particular society, the process of professionalization of certain professional groups is made.

The subject of the study, the results of which presented in this article, is the professional culture of municipal employees.The article presents an analysis of models of professional culture of workers of local government organizations. As a result of the study, it is established that municipal employees are dominated by rational bureaucratic attitudes and patrimonial expectations.However, the transition to the model of public management is carried out. Municipal employees are in the process of forming a professional culture of “public management”.