Incentive Magnitude, Job Satisfaction, Perceived Stress, and Performance: Interrelationships in an Organizational Simulation
Abstract
The level of productivity growth in the United States required to maintain our standard of living, provide for the national defense, and reduce the federal deficit can be realized only through increased efforts by organizations to improve their efficiency. At the individual level, attempts to improve productivity have generally included efforts to improve employee performance. This desired increase in productivity can, however, yield unintended outcomes. A s result, paralleling this increased productivity emphasis has been an increased interest in the mix of positive and negative effects of work and the work environment on the individual employee. Two areas of particular interest to researchers in recent years have been job satisfaction and job stress. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships among monetary incentives, performance, job satisfaction, and perceived stress. The potential of monetary incentives to increase performance, together with their use in a broad spectrum of industries, has made incentives an important factor in the study of job satisfaction and stress. The current interest in productivity improvement makes the study of incentives doubly important.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA182332
Entities
People
- Barrie L. Cooper
- Delbert M. Nebeker
- James A. Riedel