I don't think anyone is saying that it should be done for fuck all.
As I see it, it's the quality of some of the people that are employed and the untouchability in regard to their actions or inaction.
Bonuses based on targets achieved, there'll be some positions where that won't work but for the general pen-pusher then regular performance reviews by a Tynwald committee.
Fixed terms for Dept CEOs. If they want top money then they'll have to be prepared to work for it.
I think if the Government actually started to get real about performance and started to empty the slackers, incompetents and downright 'blaggers' and started acting like a proper employer then we might start to get the right applicants.
If you read through some of the job adverts it makes it sound as if we're desperate, offering all sorts of promises. Why don't the adverts say "don't bother applying unless you have the relevant experience, capability and drive to work for the taxpayer". Weed out the undesirables at the start of the process.