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PERSONAL CONSTRUCT
THEORY & PRACTICE
Vol.16
2019

An Internet Journal devoted to the Psychology of Personal Constructs

 
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THE EVALUATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE OF THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEE.
A RESEARCH DESIGN BASED ON CONSTRUCTIVIST TOOLS



Mauro Martinelli


Institute of Constructivist Psychology, Padua, Italy

  



Abstract

In the Italian public entities the assessment of employees involves the use of two parameters: the performance objectives and the individual performance factors. The last ones concern the personal behaviors required in the workplace by employees under evaluation, and their measurement affects the construction of the reciprocal roles of the evaluator and the evaluated. Difficulties invest both: the evaluator considers that he/she does not possess technical tools and relational skills to manage this process; the evaluated tends to focus mainly on the economic and career consequences. The aim of this work is to help the manager to recognize the meaning dimensions underlying his evaluator activity and to become more effective and consistent as evaluator through the use of some constructivist tools. In this way it will be possible to encourage the evaluator to become more aware about the dimensions involved and the impact of his activity on the assigned personnel and on the whole organization.
 
Keywords: Evaluation (assessment), manager, employee, performance, measurement






About the author


Mauro Martinelli is a member of several Independent Assessment Bodies and Evaluation Units of local public entities in the north east of Italy. After graduating in law in Florence he was a staff manager in local administrations; but when he realized that resistance to change in his workplaces was too high he decided to enroll in psychology in Padua. His second professional life led him to dare, as much as the first pushed him to play defense. He is attending the third year of ICP (Institute of Constructivist Psychology) in Padua and hopes to get his diploma before age prevents him from having clients. As a manager, consultant, evaluator and student, Mauro has lived many lives – in a rather questionable temporal order. He lives in a small village in the Alps with his family and a growing number of professional projects to keep him busy during his third age.





Reference

Martinelli, M. (2019). The evaluation of the individual performance of the public employee. a research design based on constructivist tools
Personal Construct Theory & Practice, 16
, 100-110

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Last update: 10 November 2019