“…When we address the issue of the evaluation methodology applied to the IPA process within public management, we observe that the way this process is scaled and the aspects that may be unstable, undergoing small or large changes, have a significant influence on how employees perceive all the elements within IPA (Iqbal et al, 2014;Murphy and DeNisi, 2008;Feitosa and Lima, 2014;Fonseca and Menezes, 2016;Sánchez-Elvira, 2018;Guimarães et al, 1998). The evaluation methodology is usually anchored in legislation or pre-established practices by third parties not directly involved in the evaluation process, bringing a standardization that does not always match the reality of the evaluation, especially within public management (Bezerra et al, 2019). Thus, the choice of methodology that will be applied is fundamental to the success of an IPA process (DeNisi and Smith, 2014;Beuren et al, 2020;Van Dijk and Schodl, 2015).…”