Specifics of motivation for civil servants in Ukraine and recommendations for increasing their motivation

The article aims to highlight the specifics of civil servants' motivation in Ukraine and formulate recommendations for increasing their motivation. The research used analysis, synthesis, generalization, comparative, and descriptive methods. To achieve the goal, the Ukrainian regulatory framework related to the civil service, modern Ukrainian realities, and Ukrainian and foreign articles that covered the topic of "motivation of civil servants" were analyzed, and recommendations were proposed for increasing the motivation of civil servants. The results of the study make it possible to state the insufficient material motivation of Ukrainian civil servants in the modern realities of martial law and the intensification of various types of crises, including the economic crisis. Given this, to avoid a personnel crisis in the civil service, attention should be paid to the intensification of labour, status, and incentive motivation. The head of the civil service must create comfortable conditions for the work and self-development of civil servants, take care of a healthy psychological atmosphere in the team, organize daily meditative practices developed by specialists and implemented with the consent of the team, ensure a democratic style of communication, emphasizing the value of each employee, organize systematic surveys to determine the level of motivation of civil servants and build a motivation trajectory for each, tracking the emergence of threats of professional burnout and making adjustments to neutralize these threats. Systemic changes should be carried out at the state level to increase the trust of Ukrainian society in state authorities, which is also an important motivational factor for civil servants. Keywords: civil servants, motivation, types of motivation, recommendations.