An integrative SDT-based investigation of the relation between financial incentives, motivation, and performance
To this day, researchers are debating the adequacy of using financial incentives to bolster performance in work settings. Our goal was to contribute to current understanding by considering the moderating role of distributive justice in the relation between financial incentives, motivation, and perfo...
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| author | Landry, A. Gagné, Marylène Forest, J. Guerrero, S. Séguin, M. Papachristopoulos, K. |
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| description | To this day, researchers are debating the adequacy of using financial incentives to bolster performance in work settings. Our goal was to contribute to current understanding by considering the moderating role of distributive justice in the relation between financial incentives, motivation, and performance. Based on self-determination theory, we hypothesized that when bonuses are fairly distributed, using financial incentives makes employees feel more competent and autonomous, which in turn fosters greater autonomous motivation and lower controlled motivation, and better work performance. Results from path analyses in three samples supported our hypotheses, suggesting that the effect of financial incentives is contextual, and that compensation plans using financial incentives and bonuses can be effective when properly managed. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-696892023-06-13T02:58:36Z An integrative SDT-based investigation of the relation between financial incentives, motivation, and performance Landry, A. Gagné, Marylène Forest, J. Guerrero, S. Séguin, M. Papachristopoulos, K. To this day, researchers are debating the adequacy of using financial incentives to bolster performance in work settings. Our goal was to contribute to current understanding by considering the moderating role of distributive justice in the relation between financial incentives, motivation, and performance. Based on self-determination theory, we hypothesized that when bonuses are fairly distributed, using financial incentives makes employees feel more competent and autonomous, which in turn fosters greater autonomous motivation and lower controlled motivation, and better work performance. Results from path analyses in three samples supported our hypotheses, suggesting that the effect of financial incentives is contextual, and that compensation plans using financial incentives and bonuses can be effective when properly managed. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69689 10.1027/1866-5888/a000182 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Landry, A. Gagné, Marylène Forest, J. Guerrero, S. Séguin, M. Papachristopoulos, K. An integrative SDT-based investigation of the relation between financial incentives, motivation, and performance |
| title | An integrative SDT-based investigation of the relation between financial incentives, motivation, and performance |
| title_full | An integrative SDT-based investigation of the relation between financial incentives, motivation, and performance |
| title_fullStr | An integrative SDT-based investigation of the relation between financial incentives, motivation, and performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | An integrative SDT-based investigation of the relation between financial incentives, motivation, and performance |
| title_short | An integrative SDT-based investigation of the relation between financial incentives, motivation, and performance |
| title_sort | integrative sdt-based investigation of the relation between financial incentives, motivation, and performance |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69689 |