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By James R. Thompson letters@govexec.com
July 30, 2007
Paybanding has become a loaded term, with different meanings for different groups. To top managers, it means pay for performance and an enhanced ability to hold employees accountable. To mid-level managers, it means more control over pay, promotion and assignments. To many rank-and-file employees, it represents a threat to a cherished tradition of guaranteed pay increases.
In my recent report for the IBM Center for the Business of Government, I found that despite all the controversy, most payband systems bring only incremental change from the General Schedule. For example, most are designed to deny poor performers some or all of the annual general pay increase.
More at http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0707/073007ol.htm
IBM Report at http://www.businessofgovernment.org/pdfs/ThompsonPaybandReport.pdf
