Title:
Performance Evaluation of Service/work Performance and the Hierarchical Structure of the Organizational Environment as a Necessary Component of Efficient Organizational Functioning: The Case of the Greek Public Administration and the Greek Armed Forces Under the Prism of the "Agenda 2030" Plan

Authors:
George Vlachos, Dimitra Papanastasiou, Ioannis Vidakis, Greece

Abstract:

This article refers to the mapping, classification and ultimately the interaction and necessity of synthesizing performance evaluation methodologies and the impact of evaluation on the hierarchical structure. Evaluation and hierarchical structure constitute two fundamental factors of organizational efficiency. Through the presentation-analysis of applied evaluation practices, it is examined how these factors contribute to efficiency and decision-making.

Initially, the theoretical framework governing performance evaluation and administrative hierarchy is analyzed, with references to organizational models and the "bureaucracy" phenomenon, which approaches structural "rationalization" and continues to be a key component of modern management in the EU.

Subsequently, under the prism of the global sustainability plan "Agenda 2030", the characteristics of the evaluation typology in the "Greek Public Sector" institution are investigated, with emphasis on initiatives, actions, and policies for redesigning organizational processes and implementing a rationalized evaluation and administrative structure framework. Improvement prospects are emerging, but simultaneously, practical dysfunctions are apparent, as certain innovations are adopted in a fragmented manner. Especially in the critical field of the Greek Armed Forces, mechanism stability is observed, in the sense that conventional evaluation methods continue to be selected, and the implemented reforms currently concern reductions in organic positions and organizational units. Complementary to the above, a common intersection of those departments of the Greek Public Sector staffed by human resources with a permanent employment relationship appears to be the excessive concentration in the middle of the organizational structure of executives with different origins, mentality, experience, mental representations, and educational levels, but ultimately with similar administrative progression, with a possible consequence of transforming the hierarchical scheme from a pyramid to a parallelogram, an indication considered strategically and operationally precarious.

Finally, comparative data and indicative examples are presented, mainly from the Greek Armed Forces space, which offer a more structured approach, aiming to extract proposals that could enhance the efficiency of Public Administration in Greece under meritocratic conditions and reignite the interest of the new generation to be employed in the Public Sector, as in recent years it has been declining for economic and primarily social reasons.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.51505/IJEBMR.2025.9623