Human Ressource Management

12 Personnel Compensation


Question

How do financial incentives influence different people?


Answer
  • Pay is more important to extroverts than introverts
  • Variable pay is more important to academic achievers and people with higher self-efficacy (believing that they can get the job done)
  • High performers want more rewards for their work the better they are
  • Low performers prefer fixed pay



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