Topic: Yesterday's News?
07. April 2006 Comments
brief honeymoon period for the NSPS when I read this advice this
morning from the MSPB concerning the new government systems which will
reward performers so much better than the GS system:
The board
presented a number of issues agency heads need to address before
designing their systems. One is how costs will be kept under control.
The MSPB presented three choices: forced distribution of performance
ratings, limiting performance-based rewards to a top percentage of
employees or placing caps on pay progression.
Forced
distribution of performance ratings? If you are in an office filled
with high performers then obviously most of those high performers must
go unrewarded.
Limiting performance based rewards to a top
percentage of employees? Here again performance should be rewarded
according to individual contribution - not a quota system.
Placing
caps on pay progression? This one is actually what pay for performance
sytems are all about. Of course it has nothing to do with performance.
Welcome to the new world.
How far down the rabbit hole will we go…
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