atw: Re: Un PC language? and Market Testing

Hi Tony,

 

The way in which I have seen the two rubrics contradicting is this:

Value for Money aims at getting the best performance for an agreed or
pre-arranged sum, a kind of economic or Tayloristic efficiency.

Equity, in public service terms, often means giving the job to someone
on the Peter principle; by this I mean that the person who gets the job
has 'served time', is beyond any further possible upgrading, and the
cost of releasing the person and fighting the local union would be out
of proportion to the position's value; no account is taken of whether
the person has any relevant experience in the technical aspects of the
position. In this way, the particular PS department has been seen to be
fair to all the automatic lift operators, but the performance will be
minimal. All that'll be the same is the pay. So, from the outside, it
all appears 'fair'. A kind of social or even Benthamite/Malthusian
efficiency that Lenin and Bukharin might have accepted?

 

Brian.

 




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