Private Pay for Public Work [electronic resource]: Performance-Related Pay for Public Sector Managers /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContributor
Paris : OECD Publishing,
1993.
This publication reviews performance pay schemes covering middle management and senior management levels in departments and agencies of central government and also looks at, on a selective basis, schemes for managers in other parts of the public sector. The objectives of the study were to investigate why performance-related pay schemes are being introduced at management levels in the public sector, to examine how these schemes operate, to assess whether the schemes are meeting their stated objectives, and to see whether and under what conditions performance pay can operate successfully in public sector settings.
INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1.  THE CONTEXT FOR INTRODUCING PERFORMANCE-RELATED PAY -- The new managerialism -- The public-private compensation . gap  -- Adoption of performance pay schemes -- Policy objectives -- Chapter 2. THEORY AND EVIDENCE FOR PERFORMANCE-RELATED PAY -- The theory -- The evidence -- A model  -- Chapter 3. PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT -- Choosing perforniance criteria -- Appraisal based on job objectives  -- Standardised critical elements criteria  -- Non-standardised criteria -- Supplementary criteria -- Ratings distribution   -- Chapter 4. LINKAGES BETWEEN PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AND PAY -- No specific links  -- Appraisal-based but links not standardised -- Standardised relationships between performanctings and pay -- Chapter 5. PERFORMANCE PAY -- Staff covered by performance-related pay -- The pay allocation decision process  -- Form of payment  -- Size of potential payments  -- Budgets  -- Quotas and forced distributions  -- Distributions of awards  -- Chapter 6. THE IMPACT OF PERFORMANCE-RELATED PAY -- Perceived pay-to-performance relationship -- Overall pay costs  -- Performance planning processes  -- Job satisfaction and staff turnover  -- Demonstration projects -- Evaluation models -- Chapter 7. FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS -- Main features of the schemes -- Findings concerning the' effectiveness of performance-related pay -- Lessons from experience -- Annex I.  SUMMARY DESCRIPTIONS OF PERFORMANCE-RELATED PAY SCHEMES FOR SENIOR AND MIDDLE MANAGERS IN CENTRAL GOVERNMENT -- Annex 2.  CASE STUDIES OF PERFORMANCE-RELATED PAY SCHEMES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY
This publication reviews performance pay schemes covering middle management and senior management levels in departments and agencies of central government and also looks at, on a selective basis, schemes for managers in other parts of the public sector. The objectives of the study were to investigate why performance-related pay schemes are being introduced at management levels in the public sector, to examine how these schemes operate, to assess whether the schemes are meeting their stated objectives, and to see whether and under what conditions performance pay can operate successfully in public sector settings.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Governance
Government executives
Government executives
Merit pay
Government - General
Law, Politics & Government
Political Institutions & Public Administration - General
Public Management Studies