Functions:
- To guide methodologically, advise, and control the execution of the policy of development of the leaders in the organism.
- To support the main leaders in all aspects related to the application of this work system that has the objective of providing the heads with the necessary elements for decision making.
- To maintain an active and permanent link with the leaders and groups of management of the system.
- Arrange for the Executive Secretariat of the agency's Committee on Managers to advise and provide the necessary elements to be adopted for collective decision-making on work with managers and their reserves.
- To guarantee that the selection and movements of leaders are carried out with the required quality in accordance with the nomenclature of positions and levels established by the Cuban Communist Party and the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers, which is specified annually.
- To advise the subordinate workers on how to carry out the process of selecting leaders and their reserves, with high rigour and maximum quality, ensuring the appropriate combination of the most experienced leaders with the youngest ones, as well as the promotion of young people, women and black people to leadership positions.
- To ensure strict compliance and quality in the organization of the processes of delivery and reception of the position in the institutional system and to participate in the delivery and reception of the leaders of the nomenclature of the Minister of Culture.
- Coordinating with the Legal Directorate the legalization of all actions required with the leaders and with legal advice at the appropriate level, any disciplinary proceedings initiated, monitoring the cases of cadres who have been subject to disciplinary measures and the periods of rehabilitation in each case.
- Monitor information and carry out investigations into complaints from workers and the public in which the leaders have an impact.
- Advise the management of the agency in establishing the branch strategy and coordinating the annual training plans for leaders and their reserves.
- Coordinate with the National Centre for Overcoming Handicaps, the Higher Institute of Art and other authorised departments, the ways and means of preparing and overcoming handicaps for leaders and reserves, in accordance with their needs and those of the management groups.
- Establish links with other sections of the Central State Administration and training centres for the better implementation of the policy on leaders in the country.
- To organize all the methodological control activity carried out by the Ministry to the national institutions and the territories regarding the policy of leaders.
- Control, consolidate and analyze the information referred to the composition, characteristics and work actions with the leaders and their reserves that allow the establishment of work policies in the organization.
- Carry out studies on human resources problems that have an impact on the policy for leaders, coordinating with the corresponding Directorate.
- Promote and monitor the dissemination, knowledge, compliance and correct application of the Code of Ethics for Cuban State Managers in management groups.
- It is responsible for the general organization, guidance, advice and supervision of the evaluation process of the Ministry's staff.
- Promote, organize and/or encourage the execution of actions to stimulate the leaders of the institutional system.
- Agreeing with the appropriate sections of the Ministry of Public Health on medical and dental check-ups for the Ministry's first-level leaders and reserves and ensuring that they are carried out in all institutions.
- To safeguard documentation on the careers of staff and the monitoring of all actions carried out with them, and to ensure that this is done in the staff units of the institutions in accordance with the established nomenclature and the requirements of State secrecy.
- Support the introduction into the institutional system of a culture of the contributions of management science, automation and information technology, as well as new experiences in the work of the country's policy on leaders.
- By delegation of the Minister, process and control the authorization of the personal departure from the country of university professionals working in the institutional system of culture.
- To know, process and issue criteria on proposals for the awarding of state decorations in the cultural sector. To keep the register of decorated personalities and groups up to date; to coordinate the appropriate form and timing for the granting of the corresponding incentives.
