In the situation when great emphasis is placed on effectiveness of public administration it is important to estimate current strengths and weaknesses of Human Resources Development in Public Administration of Latvia, as well as to assess whether HRD activities ensure strategic perspective in the light of rapid changes in economy and labour market as well as with pressure of society for small and effective public administration. Since one of the factors influencing organization performance is employee satisfaction and motivation then purpose of this article is to assess level of satisfaction of public employees with current HRM policy planning and implementation as well as with the working environment in the public institution. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was applied to assess public employees attitude to Public Administration HRM policy in Latvia and to assess public employees satisfaction rate with the working environment in the respective public institution. The survey shows that public employees don’t have a clear institutional and functional set up in the HRD policy planning and implementation in the Public Administration of Latvia. The HR system focuses on performance of administrative functions and strategic dimension of HR planning and implementation is missing. Assessment off those factors influencing employ satisfaction with working environment in respective institution shows that content of the job and working environment are most positively valued in comparison with HR planning and development and linkage between pay and performance, which got lowest scores between eight factors assessment.