Are Financial Incentives Related to Performance? A Meta-Analytic Review of Empirical Research

G. Douglas Jenkins, Nina Gupta, Atul Mitra, Jason DeFrance Shaw

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)777-787
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Applied Psychology
Volume83
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 1998

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Applied Psychology

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