Study Of China's Civil Service Performance Appraisal System

Civil servant in our country is the group that operating public administration responsibility. They contribute to the maintenance of social security and development of social economy. In the field of managing civil servant, we need to establish a new scientific performance measurement system to assure that the most outstanding personnel devoting themselves to public service can be recruited. In modern public management, performance measurement is a leading edge subject that impenetrates the whole process of organization management and plays an important role in individual assessment. It is very necessary to develop an effective civil servant performance measurement system in allusion to the situation of our country. Through inspecting the work of civil servant at regular intervals and applying rewards and punishment system according to the inspection results, it provides a source of stimulating civil servant to keep working hard. Meanwhile, combining this measurement together with the whole management process could form a public management system to assure the governmental obligantion of serving people being carried out properly. Learning from the most commonly used performance measurement methods, this disseration researches the problems in Chinese civil servant performance measurement, through anaylizing the measurement methods in the advantages and disadvantages in China and western countries, discussing a scientific measurement strategy from the aspects of the measurement index, subject and methods, etc. Applying balanced scorecard to research what kind of new measurement system is needed and the way to implementing it in China. This dissertation is divided into five parts.