The Evaluation of Civil Servants’ Professional Performances in Romania and its Influence on the Development of Their Careers

Stefania-Cristina Mirica, Andreea Elena Matic, Liliana Mihaela Moga and Simona Petrina Gavrila,

Abstract:

The research is focused on the analysis of the manner in which the annual evaluation of civil servants in Romania is carried out and its weight in career promotion and development. According to the provisions of Article 3 d) from the Government Decision No. 611/2008 for the approval of the rules concerning the organization and development of the civil servants' career, the evaluation of individual professional performances consists of “the entirety of processes and procedures implemented annually, by applying the performance criteria to the degree of fulfilling the individual professional objectives established, based on the duties provided in the job description". The research refers to the criteria taken into account for the performance evaluation, the categories of civil servants who have the competence to evaluate, the evaluation results and the procedure of appeal for the evaluation report. As concerns the procedure of appeal for the individual evaluation report, is analyzed some decisions of the Romanian courts in this matter. An efficient administrative system that would rise to the standards imposed by the European Union and respond adequately to the needs of the public service beneficiaries can properly function only through a body of competent civil servants with excellent skills and professionalism. The availability and monitoring of such a level of performance can be achieved both by the results obtained by the Romanian public institutions and by evaluating the performance of civil servants and promoting them on the basis of transparent and objective criteria. In order to be ensured the transparency and efficiency of the performance evaluation process according to Article 69 par. (5) of the Statute of the Civil Servant, the evaluation methodology is established by Government Decision at the proposal of the National Agency of Civil Servants "after consulting the trade union organizations of civil servants, representative at national level" and is intended to also analyze the content of this methodology.