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Forrester, Gillian – Management in Education, 2011
The paper considers the extent to which the education sector has embraced performance management and performance-related pay. It contemplates the transfer and adaptation of performance management by the public sector as an audit mechanism for improving the performance, productivity, accountability and transparency of public services. The paper…
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Accountability, Productivity, Performance Technology
Gordon, Robert; Kane, Thomas J.; Staiger, Douglas O. – Brookings Institution, 2006
While policymakers have tried to improve teacher workforce effectiveness by raising certification requirements, research shows that credentials correlate little with teaching excellence, as measured by student performance. School districts do little additional screening and commonly award tenure after two or three years regardless of performance.…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Credentials, Tenure, Job Performance
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1984
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 created the merit pay system and cash award program for federal supervisors and management officials in General Schedule grades 13 through 15. This report assesses the implementation and operation of merit pay for fiscal years 1981 and 1982 at three departments--Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Evaluation, Administrators
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 2000
Implementing pay-for-performance salary structures has been used successfully in business and can result in benefits for educational systems when implemented along with other compensation reforms. Business leaders can help in the implementation of teacher pay-for-performance systems in the following ways: (1) ensure that pay-for-performance plans…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Performance