Public managers’ performance evaluation systems and public value creation: behavioural and economic aspects

In Western countries over the last two decades, personnel management has been one of the areas of greatest innovation within the management reform process. Managerial staff in PAs has been given the power and the responsibility to operate as entrepreneurs in relation to subjects operating within their “sphere of responsibility..” Throughout 2009 the Italian Minister of Public Service has made a significant effort to get the Government to approve a law intended to substantially reform the system for evaluating managerial staff. The results of his/her efforts have been analyzed, considering that he/she has tried to be coherent with remarks made in the most recent literature.