Manitoba’s provincial civil service will roll out a “Balanced Scorecard”-type collective evaluation process. The civil servants will now be evaluated as a group, within their structures, on how well they fulfil their duties, and also as a group within the projects that they participate in. The results of this evaluation will be anonymised and available online for transparency purposes.

ANAC, the Italian anti-corruption agency, is launching a smartphone app that lets public employees signal any illegal behaviour or facts that they might become aware of during the course of their duties. After the initial signalling, a personal code is assigned to allow for secure monitoring of the case by the agency departments, as well as protecting the whistleblower, as stipulated under a law passed in November 2017.

Driven by the idea that a public employee who feels welcome will be happy in his or her job and want to stay, the Île-de-France regional government is hiring its first “Welcome Managers”. The duties for this new job role, designed during a “customer journey”-style workshop, involve providing each new hire with personalised assistance and a specific contact point for any questions. In short, the Welcome Manager becomes a key player in successfully integrating new employees.