The communal self-government, functioning in Poland for more than 25 years, simultaneously with broadening competences in the scope of fulfilling tasks of a principal significance for citizens, is more and more frequently becoming the area in which enterprises fulfilling tasks for communes compete with one another. Success in the development of communes, more and more frequently competing with one another, is the result of organizational development, and, within their structures, having highly-qualified staff at disposal. lt is those very qualifications and raising them constantly that have been selected as the principal issue to look into in this elaboration. As the objective, formulating the diagnosis of raising qualifications amongst the employees of organizations fulfilling tasks for communal self-governments. In this paper, apart from the review of the scientific literature, in the research part the results of surveys conducted at the turn of 2014 and 2015 amongst self-governmental employees at the basie level in Warmia and Masuria were referred to. Prior to undertaking the research, ił had been assumed that there occurred a constant improvement in the qualifications of self-governmental employees, but also that the improvement in question differed in various groups of employees.