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FEW Releases Survey Results on Pay for Performance; Offers Suggestions in Position Paper
January 7, 2010Federally Employed Women (FEW) is releasing the results of a survey taken of its members about pay-for-performance personnel systems. Respondents were also asked to provide solutions to the many problems associated with these systems and they are also included in the organization's Position Paper (http://few.org/docs/PayforPerformancePositionPaper.pdf). "The vast majority of our survey respondents believed that current pay-for-performance systems have a lot of problems," announced Sue Webster, FEW National President, upon the release of the survey results. "But we firmly believe that just pointing out problems does not help so we are also offering solutions on how to fix these problems including more training, safeguards, data collection and required action plans to name a few," she added. While in theory the organization's members asserted that there were benefits to a pay-for-performance system, by virtually a two-to-one ratio respondents expressed a lot of concern about how they are implemented which is the crux of the problem. This in turn could lead to adverse impacts on women employed in the federal workforce in areas such as job security, career progression and the future of Equal Employment Opportunity laws and diversity programs. Full release.