Evaluation of Municipal Servants’ Performance in the Context of Public Management

Abstract

The article reviews the Lithuanian system of evaluation of the in-service performance of municipal
servants, discusses key elements of activity management, also its positive and negative aspects. The authors
analyse main characteristics of the Lithuanian municipal servants’ work evaluation, its shortcomings
and main linkages with key principles of activity management model. The results of the analysis show that
in current Lithuanian situation the application of in-service activity evaluation model, which is most typical
for the New Public Management, would be ineffective, since Lithuania uses a different activity management
model. Possible ways to solve some problems, which arise in the process of evaluation, are provided
in the last part of the article.