Cell (a): Merit plans
Merit plans, which tie individual base salaries to pay, are perhaps the most common type of public sector pay-for-performance plan in practice today and have been widely used within the United States. The beginning of the merit pay movement in the public sector can be traced to the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA), which marked a significant change in the way that public sector employees were paid. The CSRA attempted to make public employees
more accountable and also to move away from