TY - JOUR
T1 - Are Financial Incentives Related to Performance? A Meta-Analytic Review of Empirical Research
AU - Jenkins, G. Douglas
AU - Gupta, Nina
AU - Mitra, Atul
AU - Shaw, Jason DeFrance
PY - 1998/1/1
Y1 - 1998/1/1
N2 - The relationship of financial incentives to performance quality and quantity is cumulated over 39 studies containing 47 relationships. Financial incentives were not related to performance quality but had a corrected correlation of .34 with performance quantity. Setting (laboratory, field, experimental simulation) and theoretical framework moderated the relationship, but task type did not.
AB - The relationship of financial incentives to performance quality and quantity is cumulated over 39 studies containing 47 relationships. Financial incentives were not related to performance quality but had a corrected correlation of .34 with performance quantity. Setting (laboratory, field, experimental simulation) and theoretical framework moderated the relationship, but task type did not.
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U2 - 10.1037/0021-9010.83.5.777
DO - 10.1037/0021-9010.83.5.777
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0021-9010
VL - 83
SP - 777
EP - 787
JO - Journal of Applied Psychology
JF - Journal of Applied Psychology
IS - 5
ER -