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Equality in Performance Review

Tamkin P, Cummings J, Hooker H

Cabinet Office, June 2001
ISBN: (no ISBN)
Bound copy: £free

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a report researched by IES

This report looks at factors affecting performance marks across the Civil Service and was carried out by Capita and IES. Some 180,000 personal records were analysed and 500 people interviewed. The key findings are that:

there were small but statistically significant differences between performance marks in relation to gender, ethnicity and disability, although women do better than men

performance review systems are not the underlying cause of the differences in performance marks. The main issues were how people were managed, valued and developed

in some cases, negative attitudes and beliefs might have influenced both actual performance and marks.

Six government departments participated in the research: Cabinet Office; Department of Health; Inland Revenue; and the former Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions; Department of Social Security and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

The full findings of the research are on the Cabinet Office website at
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This item is not published by IES. Availability:

Terry Bird, Cabinet Office, 020 7276 1511: terry.bird@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk, or David Bennett, Cabinet Office, 020 7276 1522: david.bennett@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk

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