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GGD-84-1 1 (1984-03-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabeln0001 and id is 1 raw text is: mill' BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL Report To The Chairwoman, Subcommittee On Compensation And Employee Benefits Committee On Post Office And Civil Service House Of Representatives OF THE UNITED STATES A 2-Year Appraisal Of Merit Pay In Three Agencies The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 requires agencies to establish a merit pay system for management officials and supervisors in grades 13 through 15. GAO's review of the 1981 and 1982 merit pay cycles in three agencies employing about 25 percent of the total federal merit pay population found several areas requiring management attention. --A number of factors other than employee performance have influenced the amount of merit pay employees received. --Although performance standards were better in 1982 than in 1981, both the standards and the procedures used to establish them need to be improved. --OPM efforts to evaluate agencies' merit pay programs have been limited in scope, but recent initiatives to strengthen these efforts are a step in the right direction. --Employee perceptions of the merit pay program were low. The agencies involved, the Departments of Navy, Agriculture, and Housing and Urban Development, and the Office of Personnel Management, reviewed a draft of this report and generally agreed with its conclusions and recommendations. 123776 7 GAO/GGD-84-1 MARCH 26, 1984