The Effects of Different Percentages of Incentive Pay to Base Pay on Work Productivity
Description:
This experiment investigated how different percentages of incentive pay affected performance on a number-entering task. It was hypothesized that the critical factor in incentive pay systems was the absolute amount of money that could be earned in an incentive pay paradigm. A counterbalanced single-subject reversal design was employed to examine effects of incentives on performance. Twelve subjects were used in the experiment with three subjects assigned to one of four experimental paradigms. Tw…
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Date:
December 1992
Creator:
Gruenberg, Joel S. (Joel Sanborn)
Partner:
UNT Libraries