Ministry of SMEs and Startups' Win-Win Growth Evaluation Promoting 'Reflected in Management Assessment'
Turns Out to Have Zero Influence
"We Will Strive to Ensure Practical Reflection"
The ‘Win-Win Growth Evaluation’ system, conducted annually by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, is announced to be reflected in the management evaluation of public institutions based on the evaluation results. The Ministry of Economy and Finance, which oversees the management evaluation of public institutions, also explicitly states that it reflects these results. However, it has been revealed that the impact of the Win-Win Growth Evaluation on the management evaluation scores is virtually nonexistent.
On the 19th, the Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced the Win-Win Growth Evaluation results for 134 institutions. Scores were assigned across 51 items, including the purchase amount of SME products, and classified into five grades. Ten quasi-public institutions received the lowest ‘Needs Improvement’ grade for two consecutive years. According to the Ministry’s evaluation criteria, these institutions lacked efforts and improvements in win-win growth.
The Ministry of Economy and Finance specifies in the management evaluation’s ‘Win-Win Cooperation and Regional Development’ category (maximum 3 points) that the ‘Win-Win Growth Evaluation (Ministry of SMEs and Startups) results are systematically linked and evaluated.’ However, in reality, the influence was negligible. The ten institutions that received the lowest grade for two consecutive years in the Win-Win Growth Evaluation scored an average of 2.86 points in the Win-Win Cooperation and Regional Development category. This was almost no different from the overall average score of quasi-public institutions (2.892 points).
In fact, six institutions scored higher than the overall average. The Korea Employment Information Service (2.998 points) and the Korea Post Finance Development Institute (2.996 points) scored near perfect. These two institutions scored higher than the Korea Technology Finance Corporation (2.992 points), a Ministry of SMEs and Startups-affiliated institution that received the highest grade in the Win-Win Growth Evaluation. There were also several cases where institutions with the highest grade in the Win-Win Growth Evaluation scored below the overall average, such as the Korea Institute of Design Promotion (2.809 points) and the Korea Agricultural Technology Promotion Agency (2.716 points).
The Ministry of SMEs and Startups has been conducting the Win-Win Growth Evaluation annually since 2007. It takes about two months just to conduct a full survey of over 100 public institutions. Considering the effort invested, the results are disappointing. Moreover, since the management evaluation of public institutions determines performance bonuses based on scores, the significance is not trivial. A Ministry of SMEs and Startups official said, “So far, the evaluation has felt like giving certificates of commendation to encourage win-win growth,” and added, “We will propose to the Ministry of Economy and Finance to have it substantially reflected in the management evaluation.”
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