TY - BOOK ID - 11340022 TI - Modernizing the federal government : paying for performance AU - Montoya, Silvia. AU - Graham, John D. PY - 2007 SN - 0833043234 0833044419 9786611430221 1281430226 9780833044419 9781281430229 9780833043238 6611430229 PB - Santa Monica, CA : RAND, DB - UniCat KW - Electronic books. KW - Employee motivation. KW - Merit pay. KW - Personnel management. KW - Personnel management KW - Employee motivation KW - Merit pay KW - Political Institutions & Public Administration - U.S., Executive Branch KW - Government - U.S. KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - United States KW - Officials and employees KW - Salaries, etc. KW - Departmental salaries KW - Salaries, allowances, etc. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11340022 AB - Enhancing the performance of the civil service has been a central objective of the United States since the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 authorized a performance-based component to federal salary structures. In 2003, the National Commission on the Public Service, also known as the Volcker Commission, recommended that explicit pay-for-performance (PFP) systems be adopted more broadly throughout the federal government. The authors compare several proposals aimed at enhancing the role of PFP in the federal government: a White House proposal (the Working for America Act), which recommends that ER -