Are financial incentives related to performance? A meta-analytic review of empirical research

被引:451
作者
Jenkins, GD
Mitra, A
Gupta, N
Shaw, JD
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[1] Univ Arkansas, Dept Management, Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA
[2] Drexel Univ, Dept Management, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
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10.1037/0021-9010.83.5.777
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B849 [应用心理学];
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040203 ;
摘要
The relationship of financial incentives to performance quality and quantity is cumulated over 39 studies containing 47 relationships. Financial incentives were not related to performance quality but had a corrected correlation of .34 with performance quantity. Setting (laboratory, field, experimental simulation) and theoretical framework moderated the relationship, but task type did not.
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