Construction of a Performance-Evaluation Model for Incorporated Administrative Agency System

Abstract

  A new Independent Administrative Agency (IAA) system appeared as a result of the reform to the Act on General Rules for IAAs. To ‘maximize policy implementation’ in the IAA system, unified government guidelines for evaluating the work performed and the goals set were presented. However, in reality, it is difficult to properly evaluate for the content of the goal description is unclear and abstract. Moreover, Evaluators in charge of the evaluation are performed within a limited time frame and a limited number of persons. As a result, evaluators feel overburdened and experience “evaluation fatigue.” However, in order to guarantee the quality of evaluation results, it is indispensable to properly incorporate the elements necessary for evaluation without overs or shorts. Based on the philosophy and reality of such an IAA evaluation, in this paper, I propose the Performance-Evaluation Model aiming to enhance Performance-Evaluation in the IAA system. By utilizing this model, evaluators will be able to detect elements that are missing in the evaluation and contribute to appropriate evaluation implementation.