Stress in performance-related pay: the effect of payment contracts and social-evaluative threat
Stress. 2023 Nov 15:1-13. doi: 10.1080/10253890.2023.2283435. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThere is some evidence that performance-related pay (PRP) leads to higher levels of stress as it incentivises employees to work harder for longer. However, PRP in the workplace also typically involves performance monitoring, which may introduce an additional source of stress via social-evaluative threat (SET). The current study examined the effect of PRP on stress while varying the level of performance monitoring/SET.Using an incentivised mixed design experiment, 206 participants completed a simulated work task after being randomly ...
Source: Stress - November 15, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Nicole Andelic Julia Allan Keith A Bender Daniel Powell Ioannis Theodossiou Source Type: research
