THE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT IN PUBLICINSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

The need to reduce public spending in the developing process and fundingof public services has led to the introduction of performance indicators in the publicinstitutions. Moreover, the need to optimize the educational activity, the implementationof an efficient management, insuring the quality and the compatibility of the educationalsystems has led to numerous investigations in this area by adopting, as a theoreticalreference framework some organizational models to explain the functionality of theeducational system and to define a performance appraisal system. Each model generatedby default a certain philosophy regarding the evaluation methods of the institutionalperformance, design and use of the performance indicators on education institutions.