This article focuses on pay-for-performance, a major component of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. It examines the experience of one of the first federal agencies to implement pay-for- performance (Region X of the Environmental Protection Agency) and considers the implications of the experience for the efficacy of this technique.
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