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Background

In late 2003, the Treasury and Cabinet Office carried out a stock take of pay and non pay rewards to get an idea of the pay and benefit approaches in the Public and Private Sector. A key finding of this research was the need for greater focus on the understanding and promoting of the public service total reward package.

Other findings were:

1. there is no one size fits all solution to rewards;
2. reward systems should support effective performance management systems, encouraged and endorsed by leadership;
3. different approaches are often taken for different groups of staff;
4. more attention should be made to monitoring and evaluation of reward systems and their reform.

We have carried out some preliminary research into total rewards and a report on the basis of this research is attached.

Total Reward Paper (pdf, 160kb)