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Pay packets in civil service jobs should be relative to performance, it has been suggested.
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) suggests that public sector pay should be delivered in a private sector manner in a bid to drive public service reform.
A pay system based on performance, whereby bonuses and other financial incentives can be given, could help to achieve this, the institute says.
Charles Cotton, reward adviser at the CIPD, said that the issue was one of particular importance at this point in time and that financially incentivising the public sector workforce would have a number of positive effects.
He said: “A refusal to make use of bonuses in the public sector removes one of the most powerful tools the new government has to drive up standards and deliver its many and stretching ambitions for public service reform and improvement.”
Mr Cotton goes on to say that adopting such a system would result in ministers getting “more bang for the taxpayer buck”.
