The need for evaluation in the State has been at the heart of the current days due to the failures that led to the Railway Tragedy in Tempi and the consequent proposal of the prime minister for constitutional registration.

Public sector staff, however, are evaluated every year and in the coming days the process for the 2024 evaluation period is completed, based on the new system that premiered last year. However, taking into account the data of last year’s evaluation, which is released by the Athenian -Macedonian News Agency, it is concluded that in many cases evaluators find their subordinates rather relaxed by presenting them with abilities that they actually do not have a practice.

The staff of the Ministry of the Interior are processing data by drawing specific and interesting conclusions for the bosses, as well as the supervision of the overall administrative work through the responsibilities of their subordinates.

Of the 595,676, which are the permanent staff of the State in the provisions of relevant Law 4940/22, about 189,000 (164,000 employees, 25,000 bosses) are subject to this system excluding the uniforms, clergy, teachers and academics.

For the evaluation year 2023, for which there are full information, 166,350 evaluations were submitted. Of these 39,394 it was considered that the assessors were “high performance” employees, but thanks to the artificial intelligence used by the Ministry of the Interior found that they did not meet the established criteria and therefore the evaluations were rejected. For another 11,000 cases it is considered whether they meet the high performance criteria, which are found to satisfy only 4,259 employees. On the contrary, 1,390 employees were found to have low performance, as they did not cross the “bar” in at least three of the nine skills set as criteria.

For staff lagging behind, it is foreseen to use a “toolbox” of immediate improvement of training with training and seminars based on the individual educational needs of each employee. To date, 3,941 training programs have been developed to satisfy the 101,404 training requests. More than 68,000 employees have already been trained, and for the rest of the cases the educational process is ongoing.

Education is implemented through five methods and in particular by learning in the workplace, with a training program by the National Center for Public Administration and Self -Government (ECHR), through the institution of Mentoring (experienced executives guide new entrants), by the method of coaching for general managers.

An important incentive to increase efficiency is estimated to be the so -called productivity bonus that is broadening its scope this year.

The reward will be the result of the achievement of specific and measurable objectives set by the Committee on Motivation and Rewards (consisting of officials and the relevant Secretaries -General), based on priorities per ministry. It will be paid one -off and its amount will reach up to 15% of the annual basic salary each year.

Targeting

The final score in the evaluation of bosses is largely based on the degree of achievement of the goals set at the organic unit that everyone is headed.

About 25,000 bosses of 1,400 public sector units set 180,000 targets for last year, through the new public administration targeting system. The objectives were to fulfill the design that had been set at the level of each organic unit for 2024 and were in line with the priorities set by the Maximos Mansion by Ministry.

The objectives have been elaborated so far that measurements have been recorded at 90% of the total number of targets for last year. At the same time, only 11% of the targets are exceeded. At the same time, achievement of the goals at a rate of 50% appear in 4% of them.

2023 is the first year of implementation of the new system, which determines compulsory targeting in each organic unit and at all levels of administration with the content of implementing specific actions and actions in a predetermined period of time, in the context of the responsibilities of organic units.

Undersecretary of State Vivi Charalambogianni told the Athens -Macedonian News Agency that “the innovation of the new system lies in the fact that in 2024 for the first time the targets set are based on the SMART principles, which are internationally applied to targeting, in order to set accuracy and accuracy.”

That is, they are specific, measurable (Achievable), relevant and time-bound, resulting in the goals that are well designed and high chances of being achieved.

Artificial intelligence is also recruited in the case of targeting as a digital assistant for the proper formulation of measuring indicators and specific and measurable targets.

The “champions”

In terms of organic units or addresses allegedly exceeded a significant number of goals, they are identified with those who have shown the largest number of goals.

The highest performance in the … track and field were achieved by the staff of the Electronic National Social Security Agency (E-EFKA) and are followed by the staff of the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education of Religions & Sports, the Ministry of Economy & Finance, Ministry of National Defense.

The next steps of the interior ministry are reportedly included in sampling controls on the documents entered into the respective bosses in order to determine the actions taken by the officials in order to eventually exceed the goals set.

All this while the process of selecting the first 40 Human Resources Development Advisers, which will be placed mainly in ministries and major local authorities, is underway. It is a new institution in the Greek Public Administration with a basic responsibility to provide advisory assistance to employees and supporting supervisors in terms of implementation of the evaluation system and development plans.