Abstract
The article describes HRM system development and practice in public sector or governmental organization in some European countries and the USA. There was made an attempt to compare its functional in Kazakhstan. Owing to the emergence of the role of HRM in government, public service management is being reconsidered as one of the ways leading to modernization of Kazakhstan. The authors, who conducted research in post-Soviet countries, noted that this retention of decision-makers on economic, political and social issues tends to weaken and discredit the administrative reforms and the development of personnel strategies of the civil service that the government undertakes.