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Pay and Benefits Review

A few years ago, the United Nations General Assembly called upon the International Civil Service Commission to play a lead role in the development of new approaches in the field of human
resources management as part of the overall reform taking place in the organizations of the
common system.

The Commission adopted an integrated framework for human resources management in 2000.
The United Nations General Assembly later approved this framework.

The purpose of the framework is to enable the organizations of the United Nations common
system to manage their human resources more effectively.
The framework includes a definition of organizational design and its impact on the human
resources management environment. It identifies the diverse yet interrelated elements which
make up human resources management in the common system. It has six major components,
some of which have a number of sub-components. Definitions, identification of core/non-core
elements, underlying principles and the linkages between human resources subsystems
described in the framework.

The framework provides the organizations with a holistic conceptual base from which to take
action in one or more areas of human resources management reform. As such, it can be used to
form the basis of the organizations’ future work on human resources policies and procedures