Pathway, Motivation and Control: Alienation and Correction in Civil Servant Assessment

-- Experience in Chinese Civil Service Management

Abstract

As an important part of civil servants' daily management, the assessment is not only a regulation and restraint on civil servants' behavior and performance of their duties, but also an indispensable means to arouse civil servants' enthusiasm. However, in the practice of many public departments, the alienation behavior such as "alternating sitting" and "selective report" has appeared in an endless stream, and the existing research mainly starts from the optimization of the specific assessment elements and methods, and lacks the discussion on the mechanism of the formation behind the alienation phenomenon. By combing through the process of civil service appraisal system, this paper distinguishes four types of appraisal alienation: operation blitz, information distortion, distribution equalization and application formalization. Extracting three key variables of the appraisal path, motivation mechanism and control mechanism, the clear appraisal path continuously compresses the planning space of the civil servant appraisal, and sufficient motivation mechanism can directly enhance the participation of appraisal, and the exertion of the appraisal path and motivation function cannot be separated from the restraint adjustment of the control mechanism. Then from the clear path, strengthen the motivation mechanism, maintain the control mechanism, realize the appraisal alienation behavior correction and the integrity optimization of the civil servant appraisal mechanism.