VOICE-OVER: The National Public Administration
wants to work towards achieving results.
The Job Family System helps the government
to focus on results, work behaviour, development and mobility.
This is how the Job Family System can contribute
to a result-driven National Public Administration.
The Job Family System comprises fifty-five job groups,
placed under eight job families.
Each civil servant is assigned to one job group
with three or more salary scales.
This is Maria. She's a Senior Policy Officer in salary scale eleven
at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment.
Maria draws up policy to help unemployed youngsters gain working experience.
This is Peter. He's a Senior Policy Officer too,
in salary scale thirteen at the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Peter draws up policy to encourage the use of sustainable energy.
Staff members and their managers steer towards results, work behaviour,
development and mobility during the Annual Performance Assessment.
Maria and Peter have a talk with their managers every year
about what they'll be doing the year after.
Although Maria and Peter work at two different ministries,
these assessments are based on the same job group,
Senior Policy Officer, in the Job Family System.
During these assessments specific individual agreements are made.
These agreements specify the results they want to achieve,
what kind of work behaviour they'll be using,
what skills they intend to develop and what training courses they want to follow.
The agreements for Maria and Peter
differ in respect of salary scale and working areas.
Maria and Peter both make sure their individual agreements fit in
with the relevant description for the Senior Policy Officer job group,
as well as their respective salary scales.
They use the job types in the Job Family System to check the last point.
The agreements Peter and Maria make, are recorded in a central file.
At the end of the year, Maria and Peter and their managers
examine the extent to which they've kept to the agreements
and what consequences this will have.
Salary, training, voluntary mobility.