Public Service Pay Determination and Pay Systems in OECD Countries [electronic resource]: No. 2 / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Author
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Paris : OECD Publishing, 1994.
Description
1 online resource (92 p.)

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Subseries of
Public Management Occasional Papers
Summary note
This report maps the current state of public service pay determination and pay systems in OECD countries, and explores the different paths of reform that are being followed in different countries.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Language note
English
Contents
  • SUMMARY
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PUBLIC SERVICE PAY DETERMINATION
  • Diversity of systems and procedures
  • Collective bargaining
  • Independent pay commissions
  • Employer pay fixing without prederennined rules
  • Employer pay fixing according to set rules
  • -The influence of national industrial relations systems
  • TWO STRATEGIES FOR ADAPTATION OF PUBLIC SECTOR PAY SYSTEMS
  • The maintenance of national salary systems
  • --Variation for local labour market conditions
  • Updaring national pay scales
  • Joint regulation and structural change
  • PUBLIC SERVlCE PAY AND JOB CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS
  • "Implicit contracts" and public service pay systems
  • Job classifications and pay scales
  • Rules for pay progression
  • Prevalence of length-of service increments the importance of length of service
  • Pay as a "stipend"
  • Absence of competition
  • MOVES AWAY FROM PAY FOR GRADE AND LENGTH OF SERVICE
  • Performance-related pay and the search for greater efficiency
  • Performance-related pay and motivation
  • Performance-related pay and payment drift
  • .Self-financing performance-related pay
  • CONCLUSIONS: THE REFORM OF PUBLIC SECTOR PAY
  • APPENDIX: SUMMARY OF PUBLIC SERVICE PAY SYSTEMS AND PAY DETERMINATION
  • PRACTICES IN OECD COUNTRIES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
ISBN
92-64-06245-9
Doi
  • 10.1787/9789264062450-en
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