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APPENDIX D<br />

EXPERIENCE IN THE TRENCHES: RESULTS FROM THE STAFF SURVEY<br />

recognition by peers. Messages from senior management and desire for promotion<br />

were the weakest incentives for collabor<strong>at</strong>ing across sectors (with substantial<br />

influence for 25 percent and 28 percent, respectively), mobilizing Bank-wide<br />

technical expertise (19 percent, 20 percent), and adapting knowledge to country<br />

needs (19 percent, 20 percent). Non-organiz<strong>at</strong>ional factors were far more influential<br />

in this regard: job s<strong>at</strong>isfaction was substantially influential for 71 percent of sector<br />

and anchor staff in driving collabor<strong>at</strong>ion across sectors, for 60 percent in driving<br />

mobiliz<strong>at</strong>ion of Bank-wide technical expertise, and for 62 percent in driving<br />

adapt<strong>at</strong>ion of knowledge to country needs. <strong>The</strong> next most common incentive for<br />

these behaviors was peer recognition.<br />

ACCOUNTABILITY: ONLY THE TASK TEAM LEADER (TTL) IS SEEN BY A MAJORITY TO BE SUBSTANTIALLY<br />

ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE RESULTS OF LENDING OPERATIONS; NO INDIVIDUAL IS SEEN AS SUBSTANTIALLY<br />

ACCOUNTABLE FOR ESW.<br />

39. Staff indic<strong>at</strong>ed a gre<strong>at</strong>er degree of accountability of TTLs for results of lending<br />

oper<strong>at</strong>ions than of sector managers and country directors/manager: TTLs were<br />

accountable to a substantial or very large extent according to 52 percent of staff,<br />

while 35 percent and 34 percent of staff <strong>at</strong>tributed substantial accountability to<br />

sector managers and country directors/managers, respectively. Staff graded <strong>at</strong> the<br />

H-level were least likely to <strong>at</strong>tribute accountability to managers and directors.<br />

40. Few staff think anyone is substantially accountable for ESW. Thirty-six percent<br />

of staff <strong>at</strong>tributed substantial accountability to TTLs for dissemin<strong>at</strong>ion of ESW<br />

products, compared to 22 percent to sector managers and 17 percent to country<br />

directors/managers for impacts of ESW on projects or policy.<br />

41. Accountability for results of lending oper<strong>at</strong>ions are strongest in East Asia and the<br />

Pacific, where more than two-thirds (69 percent) consider the TTL substantially<br />

accountable for results of lending and half consider sector managers and country<br />

directors/managers accountable. Accountability is weakest in L<strong>at</strong>in America and the<br />

Caribbean, where the same figures are 49 percent, 20 percent, and 25 percent<br />

respectively (only staff from the Middle East and North Africa judge TTLs to be less<br />

accountable for lending with 35 percent considering them substantially so). Similarly,<br />

staff in L<strong>at</strong>in America and the Caribbean rarely view anyone substantially<br />

accountable for dissemin<strong>at</strong>ion or impact of ESW—the analogous figures for TTLs,<br />

sector managers, and country directors/managers are 28 percent, 10 percent, and 10<br />

percent.<br />

42. Staff based in Washington are less likely to view sector managers or country<br />

directors/managers as accountable for results. About a quarter (27 percent) of<br />

headquarter-based staff consider sector managers substantially accountable for results<br />

of lending oper<strong>at</strong>ions, compared to 47 percent of field-based staff. <strong>The</strong> figures for<br />

country director accountability are 28 percent and 44 percent. And only 10 percent of<br />

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