Top civil servants urged to push diversity to get more money
by Edward Malnick, Telegraph:
Performance management criteria for being awarded bonuses have been described as ‘perverse’ and based on an ‘ideological agenda’.
Senior civil servants are being encouraged to lead diversity and inclusion schemes in order to be awarded bonuses, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.
An official document setting out criteria for the “performance management” of members of the senior civil service (SCS) states that to be eligible for the highest score “members of the SCS must demonstrate that they have made a significant corporate contribution” beyond their core roles. “This includes work at the cross government functional level, for example involving leadership of functional initiative on capability building or diversity and inclusion.” A Whitehall source said the criteria created “perverse incentives” for senior civil servants based on an “ideological agenda”.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former Cabinet Office minister, said: “This is a classic bureaucratic box-ticking exercise and is not the right way to be incentivising people. What we need to do, in terms of incentives, is to ensure that public services are being delivered efficiently.”
The guidelines, drawn up earlier this year and issued in April, would mean that senior civil servants working on a particular set of policies, such as migration, would have to carry out work outside their Home Office directorate to be scored as “exceeding” in their performance reviews, which determine whether they receive annual bonuses.
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