Background: The issue of how to reward bureaucrats and high public officials is a central component of ‘public service bargains’. It is also a traditional theme of political analysis, stretching back to classical political theory (Confucius, Plato, Spinoza) and a number of different doctrines have been advanced. The main theme here is to identify doctrines for linking duty to self-interest in bureaucracies, identify historical and current variants of the doctrine and explore the strengths and weaknesses of the doctrine of pay for performance in public sector organizations.
Seminar debate: ‘Performance-based reward systems are unsuitable for the public sector’.
Groups to prepare 500 word memo arguing pre-assigned viewpoint to support or oppose this proposition, drawing on New Zealand’s decision to abandon performance pay for chief executives:
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