Fuzzy mathematic research on performance appraisal system for civil servants in China

Based on abundant data of the civil servant performance appraisal systems home and abroad, the authors make comparison and analysis the Chinese and foreign systems, attempting to give an account of the advantages and disadvantages of China´s civil servant performance appraisal system after summarizing the relevant appraisal indicators and evaluation methodology of the system in China. What are in common in the civil servant performance appraisal systems between China and some western countries are the criteria for capacity, ability, diligence, performance, honesty and integrity. China has accumulated experience in civil servant performance appraisal and its system is peculiar in a way, deserving lucubration. In the view point of the authors, however, there is something to be desired in China´s civil servant performance appraisal system, and a fairer, and more scientific, reasonable, authentic and comprehensive evaluation system of civil servants may be established if the methods of AHP and Fuzzy Math, and the qualitative and quantitative analysis methodology are applied. The performance appraisal of the civil servants should not be a system with the economic indexes as the only quantitative indexes but a system of synthesis of a number of evaluation methods with the qualitative indexes as the principal criteria. First, the qualitative indexes are turned into the quantitative indexes by the help of the fuzzy mathematics. Then one should apply AHP design weight in combination with the 360° appraisal method and the like before the performance appraisal can find a scientific basis.