Abstract:

The government of any country such as Guyana has a fundamental right in providing public services and goods to its people.

The title for this study was: “A qualitative study on the impact of a good remuneration package to public servants on the enhancement of the delivery of public services.” They were many objectives but the main one was “To determine if a good remuneration package to public servants will lead to the enhancement in the delivery of services to the public.”

Great attention has been paid to remuneration package and its impact on the delivery of services within the public service of many countries, e.g. Guyana. Problems experiences were many, for example employees’ benefits were not sufficiently competitive to retain well experienced staff members. Therefore, in order to bring clarity to the problems, the researcher developed and answered five research questions.

The study was qualitative in nature. The secondary data was collected from many sources and the researched countries public services were Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, The General Caribbean, etc.

The major findings discovered were that in almost all public service in the world there were massive public sector reform to tackle work performance and delivery of services. The researcher interprets and concludes that there is a strong relationship between public servants receiving a good remuneration package and its enhancement in the delivery of the public service to the people. However, governments should not totally depend on remuneration package but look at other means.

Keywords: Public Service, Remuneration Package, Public Officer, Public Office, Public goods and services.

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