Federal Merit Pay, Round II: An Analysis of the Performance Management and Recognition System

• DOI: 10.2307/977226
• Publication Date: 2006-07-06T00:22:28Z
• Authors: James L. Perry; Beth Ann Petrakis; Theodore K. Miller
• Keywords: Merit pay

A decade ago, Congress passed the U.S. Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA). The merit pay provisions reforms were hailed as a means for making federal managers and their organizations more responsive, efficient, effective. Merit proved instead to be demoralizing counterproductive. Among its shortcomings inadequate funding, inequities between nonmanagers, invalid performance appraisals.1 sought remedy these problems in 1984 by creating Performance Management Recognition System (PMRS), which covers grades 13, 14, 15 supervisors managerial officials was intended strengthen pay-for-performance principles.