PAP 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Job Performance, Merit System, Keynesian Economics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 2300
• Professor: Frank Ohemeng

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Introduction: what people in the bureaucracy do is to serve two masters, the political, the citizenry. Hrm involves process from recruiting staff to keep or partying ways with them. Core ideas of hrm: people are an organization"s most important resource and the key to its source, people are an assert, and investment in human capital" is good business. The concept of merit: what is merit as applied in the public service? to understand this concept, we need to distinguish between: the principle of merit or the merit principle the merit system. Hiring and firing classification systems the recruitment process pay systems sexual harassment removing employees. Organizational performance and merit pay: what is merit pay, merit pay refers to the adjustments of an employee"s base pay directly to that person"s job performance. These plans theoretically forge a link between pay expenditures and individual productivity.