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Option 2 : Fulton

United Grading Structure is a system in which all civil service jobs are classified into categories, with all jobs requiring similar qualifications and having similar challenges and duties falling into the same category.

  • All civil service positions are given to one of many pay scales and each representing a grade.
  • These grades can be separated into junior, middle, and senior levels. 
  • The advancement of an established service officer through the grades and levels is based on demonstrated performance.
  • The Fulton Committee on the Home Civil Service from 1966 to 1968.
  • In 1968, the Lord Fulton Committee suggested that the British government service use the "United Grading Structure."
  • According to Fulton, Current administrators were not professional enough and lacked managerial abilities in particular. 
  • He advocated for a consistent grading system for all levels of government employees, as well as a Civil Service College and a central policy planning unit.

​Thus, Fulton Committee recommended the "United Grading Structure" for the British Civil Service.

  • Some of the benefits of a unified grading structure: 
    • ​an automatic upward movement in a time scale will be checked
    • each officer will have to demonstrate positive merit to merit promotion from one grade to the next
    • a more conscious assessment of each officer's work will become a practical necessity with concomitant benefits
    •  it will provide sufficient scope for genuine merit to earn accelerated promotion
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