£136 million public service bonuses. Where is Bob Crow?
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Surely Bob Crow, Brendan Barber and Mark Serwotka will be all over the news 'bashing' the Whitehall public service employees on the receiving end of a £136 million bonus pool - for doing their jobs.
I expect Ed Militwunt should be on the BBC demanding the government do something about the ridiculous PS bonus systems put in place by......
..the last government.
Read it and weep.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politic...
I expect Ed Militwunt should be on the BBC demanding the government do something about the ridiculous PS bonus systems put in place by......
..the last government.
Read it and weep.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politic...
Randy Winkman said:
This is a disgrace - I want my £2 back.
You sound comfortable with the idea that people in charge of MOD procurement, that is, buying stuff rather than actually creating any wealth, were paid a bonus to do their jobs. Paid from tax revenues (not revenues generated as a result of their work).How odd.
johnfm said:
Randy Winkman said:
This is a disgrace - I want my £2 back.
You sound comfortable with the idea that people in charge of MOD procurement, that is, buying stuff rather than actually creating any wealth, were paid a bonus to do their jobs. Paid from tax revenues (not revenues generated as a result of their work).How odd.
) paid for sending work to certain customers..... Randy Winkman said:
"No" to performance pay in the public sector then?
By what metric?There is no upside for them to benefit from - as they don't make, create or sell anything. So their targets are performance targets. How many sick people can you cure this week, how many tanks can you correctly procure and put into service. But the downside of meeting these targets have no impact on them anyway - they never lose their jobs. So monetary motivation does not work anyway.
Maybe there should be a negative impact result - which is their motivation. If they fall below a certain performance they lose their job. This is how some of the private sector works. Meet or exceed targets (that mean we as a business make more money) and you get a slice of that extra earnings above your wage. Fall below target too much and we replace you with someone more capable.
This does not apply in the land of job for life.
In fact, the unions are moaning about job cuts, many of which are no greater than natural wastage (retirement and resignation) cuts anyway. That is how bad the PS culture is.
johnfm said:
By what metric?
There is no upside for them to benefit from - as they don't make, create or sell anything.
It doesn't take much imagination to see how a civil servant's work could be measured and performance targets applied.There is no upside for them to benefit from - as they don't make, create or sell anything.
johnfm said:
Maybe there should be a negative impact result - which is their motivation. If they fall below a certain performance they lose their job.
This has been the case in the civil service for years afaik.Sticks. said:
It doesn't take much imagination to see how a civil servant's work could be measured and performance targets applied.
Having "worked" in the Civil Service for a time, I shudder to think of the metrics that could be put in place. All sick days taken - check
All customer enquiries ignored/confused/tied up in red tape - check
Total budget spent, even if there was no need - check
All projects late, over budget, over complicated and unusable - check
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