The merit pay system offers an expensive, complicated, and inequitable way of compensating senior level supervisors and management officials, or a more advanced method of rewarding and recognizing employee accomplishments, depending upon one's point of view. To survive, the pro gram must demonstrate tangible returns on an investment estimated as high as a billion dollars for fiscal year 1981 alone.
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