highsea,
not just the profit motive but when there's a budget involved-- there will always be pressure to rob peter to pay paul. a lot of the complaints re: NSPS, for instance, was that it was a cost-slashing device dressed up as pay-for-performance.
there was a Federal Times investigative report that i can't locate anymore (no longer on the website) which had the latter statement:
in any case, even the GAO hasn't been altogether free of race issues:
GAO to launch employee diversity reforms in response to job performance report (5/2/08) -- GovExec.com
You're giving rationale for unions in the private sector. The union as a counter to the profit motive.
Doesn't apply to the public sector.
Doesn't apply to the public sector.
So is there a GAO report or review that details the things you are referring to? What you seem to be saying is that there is institutionalized racism in the DOD disguised as a pay-for-performance program.
White employees received higher average performance ratings, salary increases and bonuses in January than employees of other races and ethnicities. In fact, when compared to Asians and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, whites received on average almost a full percentage point more in their total payout of raises and bonuses.
GAO to launch employee diversity reforms in response to job performance report (5/2/08) -- GovExec.com
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