PHILOSOPHY FOR PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM Government's ...

White Paper on Public Sector Reformenhance their skills wherever opportunities have arisen.2:5 Productivity Improvement”Barbados needs to become more competitive if we are to earnour way in the emerging global order. To do so successfully,the productivity concept has to take on greater significance,and ways must be found to devise appropriate productivitymeasurement schemes for the public sector.”The above statement by Prime Minister Owen Arthur at the NationalConsultation on Public Sector Reform in January, 1995, emphasises thegovernment’s commitment to the promotion of productivity as an importantaspect of the strategy for improving efficiency to enable Barbados to becomemore competitive in the global market place.Government supports the work of the National Productivity Board, nowNational Productivity Council, in measuring, facilitating and monitoringproductivity in the public and private sectors. This work has a direct andsignificant bearing on the functioning of the Prices and Incomes Policy, whichmoves towards the requirement that increases in wages and salaries be madeonly in terms of profit-sharing arrangements or productivity bonuses, based onan assessment of profitability or improvement in productivity.Since its inception, the National Productivity Council has -