THE IMPORTANCE OF PAY IN EMPLOYEE by kris1920 2014/07/16 13:33
It is easy to overestimate the frequency with which adults actually go to the opera and underestimate the frequency with which they watch TV cartoons on Satur- day mornings, based on their self-reports. (Nunnally & Bernstein, 1994, p. 383)
Rynes, Colbert, and Brown (2002) pre- sented the following statement to 959 mem- bers of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM): Surveys that di- rectly ask employees how important pay is to them are likely to overestimate pays true im- portance in actual decisions (p. 158). If our interpretation (and that of Rynes et al.) of the research literature is accurate, then the correct true-false answer to the above state- ment is false. In other words, people are
more likely to underreport than to overreport the importance of pay as a motivational fac- tor in most situations. Put another way, re- search suggests that pay is much more im- portant in peoples actual choices and behaviors than it is in their self-reports of what motivates them, much like the cartoon viewers mentioned in the quote above. Yet, only 35% of the respondents in the Rynes et al. study answered in a way consistent with research findings (i.e., chose false).
Our objective in this article is to show that employee surveys regarding the impor- tance of various factors in motivation gener- ally produce results that are inconsistent with studies of actual employee behavior. In particular, we focus on well-documented findings that employees tend to say that pay
It is easy to overestimate the frequency with which adults actually go to the opera and underestimate the frequency with which they watch TV cartoons on Satur- day mornings, based on their self-reports. (Nunnally & Bernstein, 1994, p. 383)
Rynes, Colbert, and Brown (2002) pre- sented the following statement to 959 mem- bers of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM): Surveys that di- rectly ask employees how important pay is to them are likely to overestimate pays true im- portance in actual decisions (p. 158). If our interpretation (and that of Rynes et al.) of the research literature is accurate, then the correct true-false answer to the above state- ment is false. In other words, people are
more likely to underreport than to overreport the importance of pay as a motivational fac- tor in most situations. Put another way, re- search suggests that pay is much more im- portant in peoples actual choices and behaviors than it is in their self-reports of what motivates them, much like the cartoon viewers mentioned in the quote above. Yet, only 35% of the respondents in the Rynes et al. study answered in a way consistent with research findings (i.e., chose false).
Our objective in this article is to show that employee surveys regarding the impor- tance of various factors in motivation gener- ally produce results that are inconsistent with studies of actual employee behavior. In particular, we focus on well-documented findings that employees tend to say that pay
Boet 2014/07/27 04:00
Huh?? As far as at least 80% of employees are concerned, the pay package is of paramount importance.
Huh?? As far as at least 80% of employees are concerned, the pay package is of paramount importance.
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