Avaliação de desempenho humano na esfera pública: estado da arte na literatura internacional e nacional

The purpose of this article is to analyze the scientific production published in journals related to human performance evaluation subject in the public sector. For this, the theme was studied in publications of articles databases Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo), Periodicals Scientific Electronic Library (Spell) and Web of Science. This is an exploratory research, qualitative approach and the data analysis used bibliometric study focused on content analysis. The process enabled us to identify 41 relevant articles and aligned with the research topic. This study also investigated the temporal evolution of this portfolio, the authors reference the theme, the journals that publish more on the subject, the most cited articles, the most frequently used references and the main methodologies adopted. With the results, we can see a theoretical gap in the study of human performance assessment in the public sphere and the lack of an established theory on this topic in the field of public administration.