Qualità e coerenza degli strumenti di programmazione e rendicontazione delle performance dei Ministeri

The research tries to evaluate the programmatic and reporting quality and their related coherence within the performance cycle. Firstly, the paper investigates the programmatic quality of Performance Plans of the 13 Ministries related to 2019-2021 performance cycle. Programmatic quality is here defined as suita-bility to carry out management and responsibility for the stakeholders. Draft methods and contents of the Plans have been investigated, with respect to or-ganizational and individual performance. Adopting the same methods, the pa-per analyses the reporting quality of Performance Report 2019 of 8 Ministries. Finally, the paper analyses the methodological coherence between these doc-uments. Methodological coherence is here defined as the alignment between the structure and contents of Plans and Reports. The main results show a high level of quality related to formal aspects of the documents and a low level of quality related to their contents. Apart from two cases, the level of the coherence remains unsatisfactory due to some issues with the Report.