Performance-related pay
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Economics And Management Open
Employees do not just perform in accordance with their own pay but also the pay of their peers. Pay inequality can act as a disincentive, reducing employee output and attendance by a significant amount. It is irrelevant whether they have a…
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The persistence of pay inequality: The gender pay gap in an anonymous online labor market Open
Studies of the gender pay gap are seldom able to simultaneously account for the range of alternative putative mechanisms underlying it. Using CloudResearch, an online microtask platform connecting employers to workers who perform research-…
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Restricting CEO pay backfires: Evidence from China Open
Using the pay restriction imposed on CEOs of centrally administered state‐owned enterprises (CSOEs) in China in 2009, we study the effects of limiting CEO pay. Compared with CEOs of firms not subject to the restriction, the CEOs of CSOEs e…
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Gender pay equity: Exploring the impact of formal, consistent and transparent human resource management practices and information Open
This article explores the extent to which formalised HR practices can reduce gender bias in pay setting or whether, following Acker (2006), gender bias may still be embedded within formalised HR practices. Detailed investigation of a criti…
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Academic salaries and public evaluation of university research: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework Open
SUMMARY We study the effects of public evaluation of university research on the pay structures of academic departments. A simple equilibrium model of university pay determination shows how the pay–performance relationship can be explained …
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Vice-Chancellor Pay and Performance: The Moderating Effect of Vice-Chancellor Characteristics Open
This article investigates the association between UK higher education institutions (HEIs) long- and short-term performance measures, and the pay of vice-chancellors/principals (VCs) in an era of intense neoliberalism/financialisation of HE…
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Teacher and Parental Perceptions of Performance Pay in Education: Evidence from Tanzania Open
This paper presents evidence on teacher opinions regarding performance pay from a large experimental evaluation that included three interventions: a school grant program, a teacher performance pay program and a combination of both programs…
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Promotions And Productivity: The Role Of Meritocracy And Pay Progression In The Public Sector Open
Author(s): Deserranno, Erika; Kastrau, Philipp; Leon-Ciliotta, Gianmarco | Abstract: We study promotion incentives in the public sector by means of a field experiment with the Ministry of Health in Sierra Leone. The experiment creates exog…
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Performance pay, work hours and employee health in the UK Open
A large body of research links performance pay to poorer worker health. The mechanism generating this link remains in doubt. We examine a common suspect, that performance pay causes employees to work longer hours in pursuit of higher pay. …
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The Impact of Higher Fixed Pay and Lower Bonuses on Productivity Open
This study analyzes the effects of performance related pay on productivity exploiting a change in the payment structure of a large Dutch marketing company. Specifically, we investigate the consequences for company sales of higher fixed pay…
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Who should we pay more? Exploring the influence of pay for elected officials and bureaucrats on organizational performance in South African local government Open
Despite the recurrent focus on pay as an incentive and the myriad reforms of public sector compensation, researchers have generated surprisingly little evidence of the link between pay level and organizational performance. We propose a the…
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A failed marriage between standardization and incentivism: Divergent perspectives on the aims of performance-based compensation in Shanghai, China Open
The Chinese province of Shanghai has gained international recognition as a high performing education system with strong teaching and learning outcomes. One accountability mechanism in Shanghai’s education reform strategy is statewide perfo…
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Who Fared Better? The Fortunes of Performance Pay and Fixed Pay Workers through Recession Open
Using the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, we explore whether the fortunes of employees paid for performance differ from those of fixed pay workers during recession. Only in the bottom quintile of the wage distribution were performance…
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Troubled by unequal pay rather than low pay: The incentive effects of a top management team pay gap Open
We examine the relationships with firm performance of the internal pay gap among individual members of the top management team (TMT) and the compensation level of TMT members relative to their industry peers. We find that pay gap is positi…
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The persistence of pay inequality: The gender pay gap in an anonymous online labor market Open
Studies of the gender pay gap are seldom able to simultaneously account for the range of alternative putative mechanisms underlying it. Using CloudResearch, an online microtask platform connecting employers to workers who perform research-…
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Computer use and pay for performance Open
Workplace digitalisation is a pervasive phenomenon associated to an increase in wage differentials between occupations. This paper analyses the relationship between computer use and pay for performance, whose incidence has also followed a …
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Performance related pay in Australian universities: the case of Swinburne University Open
Performance related pay is not common in Australian universities. A number of Australian universities have begun to show interest in implementing more individualised pay arrangements. Swinburne University of Technology, in Melbourne, has c…
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Merit Pay for Schoolteachers in Italy, 2015–2016: A New Regime of Education Accountability? Open
In 2015, a new performance-related pay scheme was introduced for schoolteachers in Italy as part of education accountability policies aimed at improving their performance. Beginning in that year, all Italian state school principals were of…
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Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks: a parallel encouragement design Open
This randomized study explores the causal mechanisms linking contingent pay to individual performance on a series of tasks mimicking real public management activities. Employing a parallel encouragement design in a laboratory setting, we d…
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Learning about Pay at Work: A Labour Process Approach to Pay Transparency Open
Using a labour process approach, this article examines how workers in three factories in China learnt about the workplace-level pay systems governing their employment relationships. By outlining the processes through which workers learnt a…
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Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency Open
This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered five different targe…
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Teachers’ perspectives on pay incentives in England: performance evaluation in a context of high-stakes accountability Open
This article examines a national policy of performance-related pay for teachers in the educational context of England, as understood in relation to the concept of New Public Management. Using a mixed methods approach employing surveys and …
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The Moderating Role of Country-specific Characteristics on Pay-performance Relationship in Asian Markets: A Meta-Analysis Approach Open
The purpose of this study is to integrate the findings of the studies related to the relationship between CEO compensation and firm performance in Asian countries. The second concern of the paper is to explore the moderating role of countr…
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What Do Performance Appraisals Do Open
This paper investigates employee performance appraisals using data from a single US firm between 2001 and 2007. We find that performance appraisals are both informative and drive important components of the employment contract. We find tha…
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Teacher Perceptions Of Teacher Performance Pay And Performance Evaluation In Yunnan Province, China Open
In China, teacher performance pay has been implemented for eight years, but teachers’ perceptions regarding its implementation have been examined seldomly. Exploring teachers’ perceptions is a path to hear teachers’ voices, inspect impleme…
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Pay for performance and corporate governance reform Open
Directors? pay and corporate governance continue to generate public outrage and calls for reform. Our meta-regression analysis of all comparable UK pay-for-performance estimates finds little, if any, meaningful association between director…
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Management Practices, Pay, and Pay Inequality Open
We use rich Portuguese data to analyse the relationship between the use of different management practices and worker pay in a large representative sample of firms. We find that the overall score on the use of management practices is signif…
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Opportunities and Obstacles in Individualized Pay-setting From a Manager Perspective Open
This study explored pay-setting managers’ experiences regarding the individualized pay-setting process. Seven semi-structured group-interviews with pay-setting managers (N = 28) from four private companies in Sweden were conducted. A thema…
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Do they all fail? A comparative analysis of performance-related pay systems in local governments Open
The introduction of performance-related pay (PRP) in the public sector has been one of the main trends in public management reform in the last two decades. However, it seems that PRP regimes have been loosened or even backed off the reform…
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Performance related pay in the Australian public service Open
Governments must strive to do things better, with fewer resources, and above all, differently' (OECD, 1995:6). Public sector reform seeks to develop a performance-oriented culture in an effort to increase efficiency and effectiveness in th…