This research aims to propose directions for further development of the performance evaluation of the government departments through essential critics on Balanced Scorecard (BSC).
For this, the Korea Coast Guard, that has been highly rated for estab...
This research aims to propose directions for further development of the performance evaluation of the government departments through essential critics on Balanced Scorecard (BSC).
For this, the Korea Coast Guard, that has been highly rated for establishment and exemplary implementation of BSC among the government departments, was selected as the subject for the survey, whether BSC is functioning at its best as the representative technique of performance evaluation was investigated, and the problems of performance evaluation in the government departments, and illusions, etc. toward BSC, were carefully reviewed.
The results from analysis of BSC revealed the following limitations: ① Incongruity between the whole items in performance evaluation and BSC ② Problems with establishment of causality in BSC ③ Limitation caused by quantification of performance indicators ④ Possibility of Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for being a mere means for control and management.
As improvement plan for these issues: First, the performance standards fitting into each organization should be figured out, and evaluation method and indicators accordingly need to be developed. Second, the internal performance indicators of BSC should be continuously managed in order to make it be in harmony with the distinctive features of the organization concerned. Third, the managers have to remember that the purpose of performance evaluation is feedback, so then they should be able to assign the jobs reasonably to the members in their organization to have the members’ job ability improved further.
Fourth, introduction and operating system of BSC should be built on the company-wide consensus.
In this study, the illusions on BSC, which is one of performance evaluation methods being most generally used, was disproved through actual cases on the ground of merits and demerits of the performance management and evaluation system. In addition, this research shall be meaningful methodologically as an exploratory study in the aspect of having carried out empirical analysis of the limitation of BSC by means of inductive reasoning on the basis of empirical data.