The role of firm size and performance pay in determining employee job satisfaction brief: firm size, performance pay, and job satisfaction
Labour. Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
2008
22
2
June
315-343
job satisfaction ; performance related pay ; size of enterprise ; statistics
Personnel management
English
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"Job satisfaction reflects the on-the-job utility of workers and has been found to influence both the behavior of workers and the productivity of firms. Performance pay remains popular and widely used to increase worker productivity and more generally align the objectives of workers and firms. Yet, its impact on job satisfaction is ambiguous. Whereas the increased earnings increase job satisfaction, the increased effort and risk decreases job satisfaction. This paper finds empirical evidence that on net performance pay increases job satisfaction but does so largely among union workers and males in larger firms."
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