Sentence examples for servants performance from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

They continue to use the old British system of 'confidential reports' of civil servant performance written by supervising officers; these reports are not shared with supervisees (McCourt 2006).

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.

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.

The speech at the Institute for Government in central London covered subjects from the need for a more diverse civil service to the proposition that civil servants should have performance-related pay.

As well as looking at those at the bottom, the new appraisal system will identify the top 25% of civil servants so that good performance can be rewarded.