Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 15th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview Panel on Human Resources Management (HRM) in a Modern Public Author(s) Hans Rieger DBB Akademie Bonn Germany Title Personnel management in public administration File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract The reform of the public service has very much to do with performance management systems. Wether criteria based or based on a Management by objectives it is important that the results are accepted by staff members and are used for personnel development, organizational development issues. A key role play the leaders and managers who very often are unable to use the related staff appraisal systems or performance management systems. I my paper and presentation I want introduce different performance management systems and how thea are introduced in different public administrations. At last I will present how a successfull performance management system has to be developped, introduced and controlled in a modern Public Service Hans