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Impact of Institutional Performance Funding on Individual Performance Evaluation

Author(s): Péter Kádár-Csoboth, Gergely Kováts
Subject(s): Higher Education , Methodology and research technology
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: higher education funding; performance management; performance assessment; performance contracts; model change;

Summary/Abstract: In 2021, three important external factors simultaneously encouraged some Hungarian higher education institutions to develop or, if they existed before, to renew their performance management and incentive practices. On the one hand, a new funding system was introduced, which linked a significant part of the available state funding to the achievement of specific indicators and targets. On the other hand, universities were given significant additional resources, promised to be predictable until 2026, which could be used for incentives and rewards in addition to salary adjustments. Thirdly, the universities’ ownership and governance structure has been restructured, with an emphasis on efficiency, quality and performance. In our study, we examine how these factors are likely to affect the development of institutional performance management systems including individual level performance asssessment, and what fundamental dilemmas characterise implementation processes.

  • Issue Year: 32/2023
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 470-485
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Hungarian