FQI Should Encourage Federal Performance Sharing

2. Encourage agencies to establish productivity gainsharing programs
called Federal Performance Sharing to support the reinvention and change
effort. (1)

The director of the Federal Quality Institute should form, sponsor, and
support a temporary team of government experts to plan and implement a
six-month campaign to encourage establishment of gainsharing programs,
called Federal Performance Sharing, by agencies governmentwide. To
achieve its objective, the team may conduct briefings, develop training
programs, organize conferences, consult/provide technical assistance,
develop information systems, develop reporting systems, and organize
interagency networks.  Performance sharing should be a cooperative
effort between employees and managers.  Employees and their
representatives must be involved in the creation, design, and
implementation of agency-based Federal Performance Sharing, which, in
the case of employees represented by an employee union, will require
collective bargaining.

Performance sharing could be an important incentive for employees and
managers to implement National Performance Review (NPR) recommendations;
if by implementing NPR recommendations, employees and managers can make
government work better and cost less, they can share in the savings.
Performance sharing emphasizes results, mission accomplishment, and
empowerment, and is an appropriate incentive for reinvention.