Even Wolfowitz got one.Pay-for-performance See pay-per-click. is a concept that has a novel definition in the federal civil service. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Merit System System used by federal and state governments for hiring and promoting governmental employees to civil service positions on the basis of competence. The merit system uses educational and occupational qualifications, testing, and job performance as criteria for selecting, Protection Board, "merit" raises are now given to 99.91 percent of eligible employees. This, by the way, has been true for many years. I wrote about it in the first edition of How Washington Really Works, which was published in 1980. |
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