AMMAN — Head of
the Grievances Department at the
Civil Service Bureau (CSB) Mohammed Aqtaish
said that civil servants appointed in 2020 and thereafter will be granted
rewards and incentives based on their performance.
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This, he told
Jordan
News, will help “achieve integrity and justice for government department
employees, regardless of their work location and job titles”.
The rewards will
be given to employees every four months, he said, after their performance is
evaluated “using a form prepared by the bureau for this purpose”.
He also said that
the new system “will address the imbalances and differences in rewards and
incentives for state employees, and contribute to controlling the employees’
movement between ministries and departments in pursuit of incentives and
rewards, which will enhance the job stability of employees”.
“This mechanism
will enable departments to retain expertise and competencies over the long
term, and increase the level of efficiency and productivity of government
sectors by linking rewards and incentives to achievements and to individual and
institutional performance,” he added.
Previously, the
rewards and incentives were granted as a motivational tool in return for
effort, behavior, distinguished work or performance of work during and outside
official working hours, but Civil Service Law No. 9 of 2020, and within the
provisions of Article 29/B, hinges granting rewards and incentives to
performance only.
The new mechanism
may promise fairness, but, according to insurance and social protection expert
Musa Al-Subaihi, “what is said and legislated is one thing, and what is
implemented on the ground is another”.
At the same time,
he said, “the incentives are granted to everyone, with a difference in their
value according to the job level, and they vary from one government department
to another, and this certainly leads to great pressure on the institutions and
departments that grant greater incentives, as many will seek to be assigned to
them in order to obtain better incentives”.
Yet, leaving
things as they are, “in the sense that everyone receives incentives, whether
diligent, creative, or lazy, or delinquent, the motivational goal will never be
achieved”, he said.
“It is necessary
to work in a completely different way, looking at the social and moral behavior
of the employee,” he said, “so that the employee feels he is valued if he is
active, and diligent, and that goes along with the financial incentives granted
on a very fair and transparent basis, with the evaluation based on very tight rules,”
Subaihi said.
“In my opinion,
the caps and minimums of material incentives must first be unified among the
various state institutions,” he said adding that “granting incentives to all
employees constituted a significant deviation from its purpose, and even led to
a decline in performance, not an improvement.”
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