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    The document discusses issues with motivating government employees in Pakistan. The old system of annual 5% salary increases regardless of performance discouraged high performers. A new performance evaluation system was developed with the following changes: 1) Job descriptions were created defining goals and performance metrics for each role. 2) Managers could rate employees on a scale of 1-5 instead of just approve/disapprove. 3) Merit raises would be determined based on points from performance evaluations, allowing better performers to receive higher raises. The new system aimed to better motivate employees and reduce turnover by linking pay to performance. Employees were involved in creating job descriptions to understand the changes.

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    The document discusses issues with motivating government employees in Pakistan. The old system of annual 5% salary increases regardless of performance discouraged high performers. A new performance evaluation system was developed with the following changes: 1) Job descriptions were created defining goals and performance metrics for each role. 2) Managers could rate employees on a scale of 1-5 instead of just approve/disapprove. 3) Merit raises would be determined based on points from performance evaluations, allowing better performers to receive higher raises. The new system aimed to better motivate employees and reduce turnover by linking pay to performance. Employees were involved in creating job descriptions to understand the changes.

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    The document discusses issues with motivating government employees in Pakistan. The old system of annual 5% salary increases regardless of performance discouraged high performers. A new performance evaluation system was developed with the following changes: 1) Job descriptions were created defining goals and performance metrics for each role. 2) Managers could rate employees on a scale of 1-5 instead of just approve/disapprove. 3) Merit raises would be determined based on points from performance evaluations, allowing better performers to receive higher raises. The new system aimed to better motivate employees and reduce turnover by linking pay to performance. Employees were involved in creating job descriptions to understand the changes.

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    Motivating Government employees

    During 1980s, finding qualified employees for jobs in government sector was difficult because base pay was
    low, but keeping them motivated and committed once hired, proved even more difficult, same problem was
    faced by WAPDA.
    The problem traced was the antiquated pay-for-performance system, introduced in 1990, the system allowed 5
    percent annual salary increases for the consecutive 8 years within the salary range assigned to each positions.
    Each year at appraisal time, managers met informally with their employees to review each employee’s
    performance during the year. If employees performed satisfactorily, they received salary increases of 5
    percent. As a result, almost all employees received yearly 5 percent merit increase and reached the top of
    their salary range in the minimum of eight years.
    This system discouraged superior performers, because managers could not reward them.
    Managers could not approve or disapprove a merit raise. No matter how hard these star employees worked,
    they received the same raises as everyone else. Moreover, those who had less seniority but higher
    performance than their colleagues might still be paid less until their eighth year, when they finally reached
    the top of the pay scale. Few had the patience to wait.
    Higher management on realizing that their reward system was not encouraging performance, the personnel
    department was directed to devise a system that would encourage initiative, motivate employees, and reduce
    turnover. The first step was to develop job descriptions for all positions in WAPDA, from supervisor to
    clerical job. Job descriptions would remedy a defect in the old system: poorly defined criteria for
    performance appraisals.
    The new job description were assigned no more than six key goals per position and included specified
    measurements to be used in assessing whether the person holding that position had accomplished each goal.
    For instance, one of the goals for supervisor is to train, motivate, and supervise lower-level employees. The
    data used to measure this objective include training records, skill certification, productivity statistics, and
    employee morale figures derived from attitude surveys.
    Under the old system, managers could only approve or disapprove an employee for a merit raise. The new
    system allows manager five ratings, ranging from provisional to outstanding. But officials knew that just
    presenting more appraisal options would not solve the problem. They examined the government merit
    system, which has five performance levels, and learned that fewer than 1 percent of government employees
    were rated in the lower two categories. Managers tabulate the point totals for each employee and compare the
    results to the minimum values established for each level in the rating system. Merit raises are awarded on the
    basis of these values.
    The second merit system is still too new to be judged, but participants are enthusiastic.
    Managers invited employees from throughout the government organizations to participate in drawing up the
    job descriptions so that they would understand how the descriptions were created and what the revamped
    merit system was expected to accomplish.
    Employees now have a clear understanding of performance expectations, and managers have a more
    objective method of evaluating employee performance.

    1: What type of non-financial rewards could be offered by the WAPDA administrators to reinforce
    high employee performance?

    2: What role does Equity theory play in the new system?

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