System of Employee Performance Evaluation in the Regional Employment Board (BKD), South Sulawesi (An Assessment of the Performance-Based Management Perspective)

The performance of local governments every year is evaluated by various agencies, both derived from the institutions of the government itself or from various non-governmental organizations. Their findings showed that the local government performance was disappointing, particularly the results of research communities. It seems that the efforts of local governments in order to improve their performance by evaluating their performance did not, both on the organizational and employee levels, yield the results as expected. It is quite interesting to observe why the performance evaluation system that had been existed and applied but it was not been able to make any positive contribution in improving the performance of government organizations. Based on this assumption, the study was carried out by selecting its location at the Regional Employment Board (BKD) in South Sulawesi. In addition, the study also tries to formulate such an employee performance evaluation system as an alternative solution to the ineffectiveness of the employee performance evaluation system that has been implemented at BKD. To formulate such an alternative employee performance evaluation system in South Sulawesi province, this study is oriented and based on the performance-based management perspective by using qualitative approach on the level of an explanatory analysis.