Pay Flexibility and Government Performance : A Multicountry Study

World Bank

Washington, DC

关键词: ABSENTEEISM;    ACCOUNTING;    ACHIEVEMENT;    ADJUSTMENT;    ADVERSE SELECTION;   

RP-ID  :  88486

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This study examines whether financialincentives through pay flexibility can improve theperformance of staff in government bureaucracies. Its mainmessages for pay policy are pay flexibility can improveperformance, pay flexibility works most strikingly inchanging managerial behavior. Improving public sectorperformance does not need to wait for systematic payrationalization or pay simplification throughout government.Pay flexibility can work with rather than instead oflong-term career incentives. The strategy and implementationof pay flexibility reforms must take into account the extentof fragmentation and complexity of the existing publicsector pay structure in the country.