She took various jobs as a housemaid and later a charwoman and left memorable (and very funny) descriptions of both the elaborate eight-servant performance that was required to produce a single cup of Horlicks in Chelsea ("like a crane to pick up a gobstopper") and the impenetrable and Pinteresque conversations of the charwomen.
Whitehall is being pruned and civil servants' performance better monitored.
Heywood said the plans to improve performance management would not go as far as that, but said it was legitimate to assess civil servants' performance.
Rather than wasting public servants' time forcing them to measure their performance against some arbitrary target, let consumers measure the public servants' performance against each other.If the government is serious about extracting as much value as possible from its public services, it should focus more on transparency than on targets.
A few days earlier, Meyrick's close associates had requested from the theatre's resident company, the Lord Chamberlain's Servants, a performance of an earlier Shakespeare play, a play about "the deposing and killing of King Richard the Second".
As for the public sector, the previous, Conservative, government began linking civil servants' pay to performance in the mid-1980s.
Where it differed from its medieval equivalent was in the use of slaves rather than paid servants for the performance of menial tasks.
Superstorm Sandy knocked millions on the east coast for a loop--but even in the face of disaster, New Yorkers were dazzled by one dedicated public servant's amazing performances.
Meanwhile, the focus on Silva took the heat off Neves, Fleury said, sparing him too much criticism and allowing him to quietly build on a strong record as governor of Minas Gerais, Brazil's second most populous state, where he cut the state deficit, took a 45percentt salary cut and linked public servants' salaries to performance.
Insult was added to injury for this civil servant when he found performance ranking feedback carelessly left on top of a photocopier.
