Building and Implementing Personnel Headcounts Evaluation Indicators for Local Governments
Yue-Chang Lue*
Abstract
The establishment of “5 Municipalities” in Taiwan in late 2010 has created 4 new city governments except Taipei, thereby highlighting the need for government employee headcount evaluation. For increasing staff brings up deployment and other personnel management problems at the same time.
This paper tries to propose local government headcount evaluation indicators through the following steps. First, it reviews legislation and studies before arguing that the indicators should reflect multiple characters and needs of
institutions. Then, the author examines the problems of building and implementing indicators for local governments. Finally, the author proposes several self-improvement indicators and demonstrates how these indicators can be used and adjusted.
Keywords: headcount evaluation, indicators, local government, implementation