Alta Dirección Pública: The Road to Performance Management

Abstract

Chile's Senior Public Management System (Sistema de Alta Dirección Pública, SADP) is under strain. There are troubling data indicating that political logic is flooding a merit-based system, altering its founding principles and the outcomes it was meant to promote. Executives selected under this system remain in their posts for an average of 2.2 years; competitive selection processes last around three months, or twice as long if they are declared void. While the posts are vacant, the authorities resort to an outside professional appointed on a transitional or provisional basis, who then applies in the competition: in far too many cases, that person wins it and is appointed to the position. Continue reading...