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GGD-84-22 1 (1983-10-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabehv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RELEASED by the Office oIcon&ressio ...-~ M I~-. * - BY TH. US. LNERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Report To The Honorable Jeff Bingaman Analysis Of OPM's Report On Pay For Performance In The Federal Government - 1980-1982 OPM's report concluded that the govern- ment's new performance appraisal and merit pay systems are functioning well, achieving a high degree of employee acceptance and shoild be expanded to cover the entire Gen ral Schedule work force. The data cited by PM to support these conclusions are eith r outdated or not projectable to the univprse of merit pay employees. The attitu- dina surveys used by OPM to support its con lusions were made in 1979 and 1980 before merit pay was implemented in most age cies, and the actual experiences cited by (PM covered less than 3 percent of the mer t pay population. 122788 t~lT10 'cI GAO/GGD-84-22 OCTOBER 21. 1983