An Example of Performance-Related Pay: Academic Incentive Application and Views of Academicians Working at Public Universities about Application

Performance-related pay methods are recently observed in public services while they have been widely used in the private sector for many years. Accordingly performance-related pay have become more emphasized subject in Turkey in the direction of seeking efficiency through performance measurement and audit in the public sector. It can be said that Academic Incentive Application which introduced in 2015 and has been continued today with some changes is also a result of these seeking. The research was conducted in order to determine views of academics working in public universities about incentive application and differences for views according to certain factors. In research, it has been determined that most of the academics want the incentive application to be continued by making some changes and tried to present what are the desired changes