Seventy years of attempts and disappointments in respect of the civil service and the administrative career in Colombia

--- The National Constituent Assembly in 1991 devoted a chapter to the subject of Public Duties. For the first time in the National Colombian history a subject of vital importance to the lives of Colombians, i.e. the consolidation of the State and modernization of the Public Administration, is raised in such detail to a Superior mandate. This book concentrates on the analysis of this topic and with this aim the following hypothesis is formulated: only with the active presence of solidly trained Human Resources who are systematically kept up to date and ethically committed to the management of public resources can the processes of transformation of our reality and its consequent projection towards better development stages be safely developed. The book contains five chapters: the first develops the general aspects of Human Resource management; the second deals with public duty; the third with constitutional and legal framework; the fourth develops the public management topic and the fifth refers to the public officer’s code of ethics. This paper is registered on the CEPI’s “Institutionalism and Democracy” line of research and is product of the permanent thought and discussion of the topic at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as the various years of experience in administration of public entities.