Performance Evaluation in Public Administration. The Italian Contex

The profound economic and social transformations characterizing modern societies in the last decade have produced processes of reform of the public administration system in Italy and abroad, attempting to improve the management of the institution itself at all levels, starting from personnel management. to the degree of response to the expectations of citizens and businesses, also taking into account the need to contain the costs of managing the public sector. In light of these transformations, national governments have been pushed to intervene promptly and decisively, making innovative changes also to existing legislative texts where it has been necessary to modify them in various ways and with different intensities depending on the type of political-administrative system of their country. The article aims to analyze the following issues, the objective of the document is to review some important phases of the performance cycle in the PA, through the description of the bodies and subjects involved in the process and the tools used in the performance evaluation and measurement process, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the cycle, in order to offer a critical evaluation of the evaluation of the Public Administration .