A growing consensus among administrators and academic researchers is that merit pay
based on individual performance has failed in the public sector. At the same time, however …

Background In recent years human resource management (HRM) has been seen as an
important factor in the successful realisation of organisational change programmes. The UK …

Public service motivation research has proliferated in parallel with concerns about how to
improve the performance of public service personnel. However, scholarship does not always …

This chapter begins by reviewing syntheses of evaluations of pay-for-performance systems
research conducted in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Support for performance-related pay …

We discuss individual differences in the meanings people attach to money. We briefly review
the management theory and research that describe money as a motivator and how attitudes …

The existing theoretical framework for research in Management Information Systems (MIS) is
criticized for its lack of attention to the external environment of organizations, and a new …

There is considerable agreement that organizations can benefit from using performance
appraisal. Nevertheless, some studies find that both supervisors and employees have …

politicians, and educators set out to scrutinize their schools in 1983. Considerable evidence–
declining SAT scores," unfavorable international comparisons of students' performance," …

This study explores the moderating factors determining the motivational effect of
performance-based human resource management. The analysis of the data from the 2010 …

In some compensation circles, it has become popular to proclaim that merit pay is “dead.”
The argument goes that merit pay is rapidly declining in the frequency of its use because it is …