“…It has, however, never been implemented (OECD, 2012;Kimber & Ehrich, 2011). Researchers have identified a range of implementation, public sector specific and equity issues in the failure of performance pay in the public sector (Balach & Springer, 2015;Bryson, Stokes, & Wilkinson, 2018;Hawke, 2012;Kimber & Ehrich, 2011;Kimber & Maddox, 2003;Marsden, 2010;Taylor, 2015;Tirivayi, Maasen van den Bring, & Groot, 2014). To these aforementioned issues, that Australian "teachers are relatively well-paid" "in comparison with" the OECD average, might be added (OECD, 2012, p. 2;Also see OECD, 2018).…”