Some companies offer their employees attractive stock options. Other regard their employees with nice retention bonuses. This can translate into an extra 15 to 30 percent of an employee's salary that is dispersed over a three-year period. In the area of performance bonuses and similar rewards of this nature, the state can't compete. Instead of trying to the state can reward its hard workers in other equally satisfying ways.
Agencies can also give workers a greater choice in choosing work assignments.
The state has many ways in which it can streamline the employee selection process. For example, the state can create an on-line job bank. According to Simmons and Bugarin, this bank could be linked to the equivalent exams needed to qualify for employment. Thus the whole process would be made a little bit easier. They feel that the grading of these exams needs to become a top priority as well.