Donkin R
Human Resources, (UK), Jan/Feb 98 (No 34)
Start page: 53 No of pages: 3
Summarizes the UK evidence that performance-related pay fails to improve employee performance, possibly even harming it. Despite this evidence, draws attention to the fact that many companies are keeping performance-related pay as part of their remuneration strategy, albeit as a small element of it. 

Polio could be wiped out in East Africa by the millennium, thanks to a huge immunisation campaign funded by the Department for International Development (DFID).
Sixteen million children under five in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania will be immunised over the next three years under the 18 million pound polio eradication project, effectively preventing all new cases of the disease. 

If public sector organisations are to deliver increasingly efficient and effective services, then cross agency working, a focus on the citizen’s perspective and combating fraud must be key priorities, according to the Audit Commission annual report published today.
Roger Brooke, Chairman of the Audit Commission, said: ” Over the last year the Commission has continued to promote its core values of efficiency, effectiveness and economy.